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Aryan Thakur

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  • "Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • "Be patient and live with the knowledge that all you are searching for is certain to come if you prepare for it and expect it."
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • Your outer world reflects the state of your inner world.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • Those people who think the same thoughts every day, most of them negative, have fallen into bad mental habits.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • ou see, things are always created twice: first in the workshop of the mind and then, and only then, in reality.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • "There is no such thing as objective reality or 'the real world.'
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • To live life to the fullest, you must stand guard at the gate of your garden and let only the very best information enter. You truly cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought—not even one.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • "In the fable, the garden is a symbol for the mind," said Julian. "If you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom far beyond your expectations. But if you let the weeds take root, lasting peace of mind and deep inner harmony will always elude you
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • The garden, the lighthouse, the sumo wrestler, the pink wire cable, the stopwatch, the roses and the winding path of diamonds are symbols of the seven timeless virtues for an enlightened life
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • "When the student is ready, the teacher appears,"
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • He spoke of how he had traded the riches of his soul for a fat bank account and the illusory gratification of his 'live fast, die young' lifestyle.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • he did wonder whether he could really spend the rest of his days without the intellectual challenge that the legal profession had offered him since he left Harvard Law Schoo
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • At other times he hiked alone, using this time to silently reflect on where he had been in his life — and where he was now headed.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • he shed the shackles of reason and placed his trust in his intuition.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • I have realized that failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion.
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • Perhaps the saddest thing was that he had also lost his focus in the courtroom. Where he would once dazzle all those present with an eloquent and airtight closing argument, he now droned on for hours, rambling about obscure cases that had little or no bearing on the matter before the Court. Where once he would react grace- fully to the objections of opposing counsel, he now displayed a biting sarcasm that severely tested the patience of judges who had earlier viewed him as a legal genius
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • He constantly complained that he was sick and tired of being sick and tired
    The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
  • The Happiness Advantage is a psychology theory that draws a connection between personal happiness and professional success. This idea proposes that the happier people are, the more successful they'll be.
    The Happiness Advantage and How It Improves Productivity
  • Starting [at a young age] he’s read everything that he could find about business
    Curius / Onboarding