A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
KHALED HOSSEINIA man’s heart is a wretched, wretched thing. It isn’t like a mother’s womb. It won’t bleed. It won’t stretch to make room for you.
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You’re gutless. It’s how you were made. And that’s not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you’ve never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is God help him.
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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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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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And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.
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A sudden happiness catches me unawares. I feel it trickling into me, and my eyes go liquid with gratitude and hope.
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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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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 can not stop you from being who you are.
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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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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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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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