Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd that’s the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.
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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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There is a way to be good again.
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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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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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People say that eyes are windows to the soul.
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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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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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He said that if culture is a house, then language was the key to the front door; to all the rooms inside. Without it, he said, you ended up wayward, without a proper home or a legitimate identity.
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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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It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.
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It was the kind of love that, sooner or later, cornered you into a choice: either you tore free or you stayed and withstood its rigor even as it squeezed you into something smaller than yourself.
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Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself.
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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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The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.
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For courage, there must be something at stake. I come here with nothing to lose.
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