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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.

Khaled Hosseini

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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God Himself Reason Sorrow
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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Deep Lying Right Sin Theft Truth Wisdom
Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.
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Action Deep Heart Punishment Understand
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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Action Life Ourselves Time Understand
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
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Demand Peace Time War
Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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Detail Greedy Theft Time
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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Eyes Feeling Gratitude Happiness Hope Tears Trick Water
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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Bury Lying Reading Wrong Yourself
Some stories don’t need telling.
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Need One Liner Story Talk
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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Beautiful Gift Stupidity
Like a compass needle that points north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.
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Fingers Man Oppression Woman
I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.
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Change Different Life Myself Open Talk
True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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Goodness Guilty Leadership Transformation True
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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Alive Deep Family God Gratitude Husband Myself Son Thankful Wife
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.
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Empty Gratitude Legs Loss Missing Myself

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