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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.

Khaled Hosseini

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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Her impulse, her need, to be the corrector of injustices, warden of the downtrodden flock.
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Herself Justice Need
And suddenly, just like that, hope became knowledge. I was going to win. It was just a matter of when.
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I want to tear myself from this place, from this reality, rise up like a cloud and float away, melt into this humid summer night and dissolve somewhere far, over the hills. But I am here, my legs blocks of concrete, my lungs empty of air, my throat burning. There will be no floating away.
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Hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.
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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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She said, ‘I’m so afraid.’ And I said, ‘why?,’ and she said, ‘Because I’m so profoundly happy, Dr. Rasul. Happiness like this is frightening.’ I asked her why and she said, ‘They only let you be this happy if they’re preparing to take something from you.
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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’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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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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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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Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.
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All good things in life are fragile and easily lost.
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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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It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
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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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