Not a word passes between us, not because we have nothing to say, but because we don’t have to say anything
KHALED HOSSEINIYet love can move people to act in unexpected ways and move them to overcome the most daunting obstacles with startling heroism.
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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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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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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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You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
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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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But better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
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Nothing happens in a vacuum in life: every action has a series of consequences, and sometimes it takes a long time to fully understand the consequences of our actions.
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True redemption is when guilt leads to good.
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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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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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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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What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
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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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But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.
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