Everyone is an ocean inside. Every individual walking the street. Everyone is a universe of thoughts, and insights, … - Khaled Hosseini

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Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

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.

Feelings, Inability, Ocean, Person, Present, Walking

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it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

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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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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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You are never alone in Afghanistan. You are always in the company of others, usually family. You don't understand yourself really as an individual, you understand yourself as part of something bigger than yourself. Family is so central to your identity, to how you make sense of your world, it is very dramatic, and therefore an amazing source of storytelling, a source of fiction for me.

Bigger, Fiction, Identity, Sense, Usually, World

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

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The debate raged on for so long, at last Saphira had interrupted with a roar that shook the walls of the command tent. Then she said, I am sore and tired, and Eragon is doing a poor job of explaining himself. We have better things to do than stand around yammering like jackdaws, no?. . . Good now listen to me. It was reflected Eragon, hard to argue with a dragon.

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Nhat Hanh

As long as we think our lives are not good enough (materially), we will not have happiness. As soon as we realize our lives are good enough, happiness immediately appears. That is the practice of contentment.

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Thomas Horn

I would go into a place that was quiet and isolated and think about how my character would feel in the situation, considering who he was and what he had been through. I would think about that even up to 30 minutes. And when I felt the character was in my body and I had left, I could walk onto set or into rehearsal.

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Arthur Ashe

Later, I discovered there was a lot of work to being good in tennis.

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Shoitsu Omatsu

Sitting peacefully on a cushion day and night seeking to attain Buddhahood, rejecting life and death in hopes of realizing enlightenment, is all like a monkey grasping at the moon reflected in the water.

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