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“The entrepreneur’s mind-set is completely different to the employee’s mind-set. The entrepreneur finds it abhorrent to conform to organizational norms, whilst the employee finds joy and stability in all that’s tried and true. It’s not that one’s wrong and the other is right. It’s the mind-set that differentiates the two.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“I now understand that life comes with no guarantees. There is risk at the heart of every decision we make. No matter how much we plan things—or not plan anything at all—life’s plans will always take precedence over our own.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

“Memories are their own descendents masquerading as the ancestors of the present.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“The act of memory is an act of ghostwriting.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“Access to memories does not guarantee access to truth.”
― David Mitchell, Ghostwritten

“Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.”
― Brian Weiss, Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

“According to Buddhism, the root of suffering is neither the feeling of pain nor of sadness nor even of meaninglessness. Rather, the real root of suffering is this never-ending and pointless pursuit of ephemeral feelings, which causes us to be in a constant state of tension, restlessness and dissatisfaction. Due to this pursuit, the mind is never satisfied. Even when experiencing pleasure, it is not content, because it fears this feeling might soon disappear, and craves that this feeling should stay and intensify. People are liberated from suffering not when they experience this or that fleeting pleasure, but rather when they understand the impermanent nature of all their feelings, and stop craving them. This is the aim of Buddhist meditation practices. In meditation, you are supposed to closely observe your mind and body, witness the ceaseless arising and passing of all your feelings, and realise how pointless it is to pursue them. When the pursuit stops, the mind becomes very relaxed, clear and satisfied. All kinds of feelings go on arising and passing – joy, anger, boredom, lust – but once you stop craving particular feelings, you can just accept them for what they are. You live in the present moment instead of fantasising about what might have been. The resulting serenity is so profound that those who spend their lives in the frenzied pursuit of pleasant feelings can hardly imagine it. It is like a man standing for decades on the seashore, embracing certain ‘good’ waves and trying to prevent them from disintegrating, while simultaneously pushing back ‘bad’ waves to prevent them from getting near him. Day in, day out, the man stands on the beach, driving himself crazy with this fruitless exercise. Eventually, he sits down on the sand and just allows the waves to come and go as they please. How peaceful!”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“I believe that when we come into this world, we are not promised glory, fortune, fame, a happy family or really anything at all. All we get is the journey. And in these pages, you will find mine. -Dipa to her Grandfather”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“…the fruit merely a manifestation of what was inside the tree all along.”
― Laurie Beth Jones, Jesus, Life Coach: Learn from the Best

“I will persist until I succeed.

I was not delivered into this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep.

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

I will persist until I succeed.”
― Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World

“When you own your choices, you own their consequences.”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“In my experience, an effective mission statement basically answers one question: How do we intend to win in this business?”
― Jack Welch, Winning

“Sooner or later all mankind will realize that the greatest cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrow and crimes of humanity rests solely in acts of love. Love is the greatest gift from God. It is the divine spark that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, love gives us the power to work miracles with your own life and those we touch. ”
― Og Mandino, The Christ Commission

“I can hear my muse whispering tenderly in my ear. There is a story that wants to be told, and I'm merely its chosen vessel.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“You will always be the Matriarch—the Queen of Hearts. Your hand rocked my cradle, and you ruled my world.”
― Dipa Sanatani, The Merchant of Stories: A Creative Entrepreneur's Journey

“No one on a cohesive team can say, Well, I did my job. Our failure isn’t my fault.”
― Patrick Lencioni, The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business

“No one ever accepts criticism so cheerfully. Neither the man who utters it nor the man who invites it really means it.”
― R. K. Narayan

“This education has reduced us to a nation of morons; we were strangers to our own culture and camp followers of another culture, feeding on leavings and garbage . . . What about our own roots? . . . I am up against the system, the whole method and approach of a system of education which makes us morons, cultural morons, but efficient clerks for all your business and administration offices.”
― R.K. Narayan, The English Teacher

“Your desire is your prayer. Picture the fulfillment of your desire now and feel its reality and you will experience the joy of the answered.
Dr. Joseph Murphy”
― Joseph Murphy