Dan Millman Quotes

“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.”

“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.”

“There are no ordinary moments.”

“You can live a whole life time never being awake.”

“Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”

“As you manage your money, you manage your life.”

“Faith is the courage to live your life as if everything that happens does so for your highest good and learning. Like it or not.”

“Life comes at us in waves. We can't predict or control those waves, but we can learn to surf”

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”

“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”

“A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”

“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.”

“Better to live Until You die.”

“The world's a puzzle; no need to make sense out of it." - Socrates”

“The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”

“The warrior is Here, Now.”

“Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge”

“The birth of the mind is the death of the senses”

“Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation”

“you have to ‘lose your mind’ before you can come to your senses.”

“Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.”

“You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.”

“Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.”

“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.”

“I had lost my mind and fallen into my heart.”

“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.”

“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes”

“Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”

“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.”

“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.”

“While some of us act without thinking, too many of us think without acting.”

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

“Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.”

“You will be free of the world's turbulence as soon as you stop taking your thoughts so seriously.”