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da’s Quotes

“People are more gullible and less compassionate than any of us want to believe.”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

tags: compassion, compassionate, gullible

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“Once we know, we’re empowered.”
― Elevia DeNobelia, Syl Sabastian

tags: awareness, discernment, out-bs, personal-development, self-improvement, social-change, social-consciousness, understanding

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“Pregnancy had brought a list of worries—episiotomies, prolapse, preeclampsia. I was so preoccupied with the idea of losing my body, it had never occurred to me that I might lose my mind.”
― Catherine Cho, Inferno: A Memoir of Motherhood and Madness

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“there were three kinds of karma: the accumulated karma from all our past lives; the karma we created in this life; and the karma we stored to ripen in our future lives.”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

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“Success was ephemeral—and fluid—as I’d found out the hard way. It came. It went. It changed you from the outside, but not from the inside. Inside, I was still the same girl who dreamed of a destiny greater than she was allowed. Did I really need the house to prove I had skill, talent, ambition, intelligence? What if—”
― Alka Joshi, The Henna Artist

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