"People expect that they should be understood by you but seldom put in an effort to understand you."

-- Amit Abraham

#People Quotes #Effort Quotes #Should Quotes

“The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.”
“Autumn's the mellow time.”

Source : William Allingham (1883). “Evil May-day, &c”
“Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?”

Source : "Thank You and You're Welcome". Book by Kanye West and J. Sakiya Sandifer, 2009.
“Neither reproaches nor encouragements are able to revive a faith that is waning.”

Source : Nathalie Sarraute (1990). “The age of suspicion: essays on the novel”, George Braziller
“I'm interested in the cultural thing - music, then eventually cinema. I think it's part of my struggle as a cultural worker. I'm not into the armed thing. I cannot be violent.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Postpartum depression is a very real and very serious problem for many mothers. It can happen to a first time mom or a veteran mother. It can occur a few days... or a few months after childbirth.”
“This is a concept that western culture has forgotten : everything is one! The idea of dichotomy is deeply wrong and nothing is better than a great symbol of China, the Tao, the wheel of yin and yang that represents life. The universe is the harmony of opposites, because there is no water without fire, there is no female with no male, there is no night without day, there is no sun without the moon ... there is no good without evil! This symbol is perfect since the white and black are embracing each other; inside the white there is a black point and inside the black there is a white point.”
“No," said a voice, "the only thing wrong on a night like that is that there is a world and you must come back to it.”

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