— Afghan Proverb
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“When the worst that can happen has come and gone And you’re still standing, remember that you won.”
— Joan Bauer, Almost Home
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”
— Johanna de Silentio
I am afraid of falling asleep. To wake up to find that you were there only in my dreams.
— where shadows live
One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
― Khalil Gibran
The wars will end and the leaders will shake hands, and that old woman will remain waiting for her martyred son, and that girl will wait for her beloved husband, and the children will wait for their heroic father, I do not know who sold the homeland but I know who paid the price.
— Mahmoud Darwish
In the era of calamities, you're a moment of peace.
— Nasir Kazmi
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...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams, not real life, dreams conjured up by words.
— Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book
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