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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.

Khaled Hosseini

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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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A story is like a moving train: no matter where you hop onboard, you are bound to reach your destination sooner or later.
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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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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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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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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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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.
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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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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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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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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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It’s wrong what they say about the past, I’ve learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.
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