Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.
KHALED HOSSEINIEveryone 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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think 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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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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There is a way to be good again.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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They say, Find a purpose in your life and live it. But, sometimes, it is only after you have lived that you recognize your life had a purpose, and likely one you never had in mind.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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