Quotes Dan Millman Quotes July 23, 2021July 23, 2021 Undefeated Motivation “There are no ordinary moments.” -Dan Millman“Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.” -Dan Millman“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.” -Dan Millman“Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.” -Dan Millman“The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.” -Dan Millman“Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.” -Dan Millman“Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are, whether it’s greedy or loving.” -Dan Millman“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.” -Dan Millman“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.” -Dan Millman“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.” -Dan Millman“If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever.” -Dan Millman“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does.” -Dan Millman“Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering. Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is… The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.” -Dan Millman“Everyone tells you what’s good for you. They don’t want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs.” -Dan Millman“You can live a whole life time never being awake.” -Dan Millman“Moderation? It’s mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It’s the devil’s dilemma. It’s neither doing nor not doing. It’s the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It’s for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation…is lukewarm tea, the devil’s own brew.” -Dan Millman“Where are you? Here. What time is it? Now. What are you? This moment.” -Dan Millman“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.” -Dan Millman“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. Paradox: Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out. Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure. Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.” -Dan Millman“You don’t have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.” -Dan Millman“Every positive change – every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness – involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.” -Dan Millman“There are no mistakes, only lessons. If you don’t learn the lesson the first time, they get harder.” -Dan Millman“Remember that life develops what it demands – the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.” -Dan Millman“Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.” -Dan Millman“If you want peace of mind I suggest you resign as general manager of the universe.” -Dan Millman“You are rich if you have enough money to satisfy all your desires. So there are two ways to be rich: you earn, inherit, borrow, beg, or steal enough money to meet all your desires; or you cultivate a simple lifestyle of few desires; that way you always have enough money.” -Dan Millman“The hours of your life are the most valuable currency you will ever have. How will you spend them?” -Dan Millman“Bad people don’t go to hell, they are already there.” -Dan Millman“You get no more and no less than what you believe you deserve.” -Dan Millman“Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It’s only power over you is to draw your attention out of the present.” -Dan Millman“There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.” -Dan Millman“Be happy now, without reason – or you never will be at all.” -Dan Millman“The first step to change… is accepting your reality right now. Honoring your process. Compassionate self-awareness leads to change; harsh self-criticism only holds the pattern in place, creating a stubborn and defensive Basic Self. Be gentle with yourself as you would with a child. Be gentle but firm. Give yourself the space to grow.” -Dan Millman“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness–if you had little time left to live-you would waste precious little of it! Well, I’m telling you…you do have a terminal illness: It’s called birth. You don’t have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason-or you will never be at all.” -Dan Millman“You haven’t yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior’s way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability-to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I’ve shown you by example that a warrior’s life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior’s sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.” -Dan Millman“I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.” -Dan Millman“The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Dan Millman“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.” -Dan Millman“If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, ‘Aarggh! Screwed up again!’ Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.” -Dan Millman“So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child – the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be? If, when playing an opponent, you are also opposing yourself, you will be outnumbered.” -Dan Millman“The warrior is Here, Now.” -Dan Millman“Live in the Moment, ‘Empty Your Mind of the Trash’ Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge.” -Dan Millman“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses.” -Dan Millman“Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.” -Dan Millman“It’s better to make a mistake with the full force of your being than to timidly avoid mistakes with a trembling spirit. Responsibility means recognizing both pleasure and price, action and consequence, then making a choice.” -Dan Millman“Life comes at us in waves. We can’t predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf.” -Dan Millman“Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation.” -Dan Millman“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.” -Dan Millman“‘You don’t need to control emotion,’ he said. ‘Emotions are natural, like passing weather. Sometimes it’s fear, sometimes sorrow or anger. Emotions are not the problem. The key is to transform the energy of emotion into constructive action.’” -Dan Millman“Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.” -Dan MillmanLoad More Explore More Quotes
