I finally had what I’d wanted all those years. Except now that I had it, i felt as empty as this unkempt pool I was dangling my legs into.
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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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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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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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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Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Yet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a degree of both humility and charity when judging the inner workings of another person’s heart.
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Life just doesn’t care about our aspirations, or sadness. It’s often random, and it’s often stupid and it’s often completely unexpected, and the closures and the epiphanies and revelations we end up receiving from life, begrudgingly, rarely turn out to be the ones we thought.
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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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