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There will be many challenges in life. Some will propel you forward, while others will kick you with such force that you will believe you’ll never recover from them. But if you remember one thing, you will never falter. Family is everything, Joonam. Never forget that.”
But no matter what part of herself she showed to the world, my mother continuously proved through her actions that a woman was the captain of her destiny—she simply needed to be brave enough to grasp it. She never got to go home. Nasrin Baran died in an American hospital,
“There’s no such thing as curses. Life is circumstance and luck. Everything we go through is a crapshoot. Gambling is supposed to be bad for us, but our lives are a game of chance from the moment of conception.”
“Scars are maps. They show the roads taken on a journey. I think yours are interesting.”
Religion isn’t evil, not by itself. If you take lessons from the texts, it could be a form of enrichment. It can help be a moral compass of sorts, but as soon as religion becomes an obsession, it morphs into poison, and that’s when it becomes lethal to anyone who adheres to it. This is why so many people rage against it.”
“God? I’d like to think he or she is up there watching over us. I’d like to think whatever being God is, he’s a good one, not one of vengeance or intolerance in organized religion. But to answer your question truthfully, wanting to believe and believing are two vastly different things. No. I don’t believe in God. Not anymore. I’ve seen what religion does to people. I don’t want to live in the world of us and them. To place humans in neat little boxes where they’re worthy or unworthy. Life doesn’t work like that. And to be fair, the concept of free will and love thy neighbors that so many
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All men have their frailties, and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections will never find what he seeks.
Love is an ocean with endless waterways.
