Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINIBehind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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And every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.
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There is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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It’s a funny thing… but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really, what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.
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One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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I’ve read that if an avalanche buries you and you’re lying there underneath all that snow, you can’t tell which way is up or down. You want to dig yourself out but pick the wrong way, and you dig yourself to your own demise.
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I learned that the world didn’t see the inside of you, that it didn’t care a whit about the hopes and dreams, and sorrows, that lay masked by skin and bone. It was as simple, as absurd, and as cruel as that.
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Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, and feelings. But every person is crippled in his or her own way by our inability to truly present ourselves to the world.
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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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As far as I know, he never asked where she had been or why she had left and she never told. I guess some stories do not need telling.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Some stories don’t need telling.
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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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