People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
KHALED HOSSEINIBut better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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Children aren’t coloring books. You don’t get to fill them with your favorite colors.
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There is a way to be good again.
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She was the trembler of knees, the spiller of teacups.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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And that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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