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“An unreconciled past is the present.”
― Aarti Patel

“When you look around and there are no answers, where do you go from there?”
― Aarti Patel

“Always in life an idea starts small, it is only a sapling idea, but the vines will come and they will try to choke your idea so it cannot grow, and it will die and you will never know you had a big idea, an idea so big it could have grown thirty meters through the dark canopy of leaves and touched the face of the sky. The vines are people who are afraid of originality, of new thinking. Most people you encounter will be vines; when you are a young plant they are very dangerous. Always listen to yourself, Peekay. It is better to be wrong than simply to follow convention. If you are wrong, no matter, you have learned something and you grow stronger. If you are right, you have taken another step toward a fulfilling life.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“If you focus on the risks, they'll multiply in your mind and eventually paralyze you. You want to focus on the task, instead, on doing what needs to be done.”
― Barry Eisler

“[Dean] “My dear fellow, who will let you?”

[Roark] “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“If you follow the money you'll lose your dreams. If you follow your dreams, the money will come.”
― George Collopy

“*Only if you reject all the other paths can you discover your own path.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Mind Is a Myth: Conversations With Ug Krishnamurthi

“Q.= WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU?

U.G = You are what you are doing RIGHT NOW!”
― U.G. Krishnamurti

“Sometimes we are so involved with our activity that we lose ourselves in it, and in that sense we are living in the moment.”
― U.G. Krishnamurti, Thought is Your Enemy

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. ”
― U. G. Krishnamurti

“First with the head, then with the heart.”
― Bryce Courtenay, The Power of One

“Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.”
― Roald Dahl

“Karma is not elitist.”
― Aarti Patel

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― Aarti Patel

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
― Michael Jordan

“If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison.”
― Ken Dickson

“Why am I quoting myself?”
― Aarti Patel

“I'll always remember these great times, at least for now.”
― Aarti Patel

“Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.”
― Bob Ross

“This is your bravery test. You worked so hard and then a crazy-haired guy tells you to throw in a big ol' tree on top of it all.
Take a two-inch brush...”
― Bob Ross

“I guess I’m a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals. That’s okay though; I have more fun than most people.”
― Bob Ross

“Gotta have opposites, light and dark and dark and light, in painting. It’s like in life. Gotta have a little sadness once in awhile so you know when the good times come. I'm waiting on the good times now.”
― Bob Ross

“Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.”
― Voltaire

“If your Doctor cannot prove they are the Creator, what right do they have to give you an expiration date? None fight for your right to live. Been on hospice almost 16 years now. No 'man' has any right to say you have less then 6 months to live, no matter what the pages on the wall say. Fight its your right.”
― Debee Sue

“Inside all of us is a power which wants to expand and improve. This force gives us grand images of being bigger and better than we currently are. It’s not there by accident; life has an agenda. It wants to evolve.”
― J.H. Simon, How to Kill a Narcissist: Debunking the Myth of Narcissism and Recovering from Narcissistic Abuse

“The more we see health as a practice rather than as a problem to fix, the more we encourage the body’s natural potential to be healthy.”
― Aarti Patel, The Art of Health: Simple and Powerful Keys for Creating Health in your Life

“What was the one underlying cause of acne according to this patient, and to others who I talked to after that day? They felt they were doing something wrong. In patients’ minds, they were somehow to blame for this whole ordeal.”
― Aarti Patel, Acne: Just Another Four-Letter Word

“Step one in facing acne: Recognize the words and messages it’s using against you.”
― Aarti Patel, Acne: Just Another Four-Letter Word