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.
KHALED HOSSEINIThere is only one sin. and that is theft. When you tell a lie, you steal someones right to the truth.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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I’m gladly doing my own thing for the time being.
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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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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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You can not stop you from being who you are.
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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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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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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I laughed. Partly at the joke, partly at how Afghan humor never changed. Wars were waged, the Internet was invented, and a robot had rolled on the surface of Mars, and in Afghanistan we were still telling Mullah Nasruddin jokes.
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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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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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A 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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