I suspect the truth is that we are waiting, all of us, against insurmountable odds, for something extraordinary to happen to us.
KHALED HOSSEINIAnd suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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Of all the hardships a person had to face, none was more punishing than the simple act of waiting.
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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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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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A boy who won’t stand up for himself becomes a man who can’t stand up to anything.
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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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When you kill a man, you steal a life. You steal his wife’s right to a husband, rob his children of a father. When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth. When you cheat, you steal the right to fairness.
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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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But then it passed, as all things do.
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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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There was so much goodness in my life. So much happiness. I wondered whether I deserved any of it.
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