Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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 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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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Whether you do something or decide to do nothing, either way, you are making a moral choice. And I hope people make the right one.
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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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In many parts of the world, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. But I think we need women to solve the problems that men create.
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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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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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And that, is the story of our country, one invasion after another Macedonians. Saddanians. Arabs. Mongols. Now the Soviets. But we’re like those walls up there. Battered, and nothing pretty to look at, but still standing.
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Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
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Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly.
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It’s tremendous what can happen when suddenly you make an emotional connection.
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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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Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.
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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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