Dan Millman Quotes

Daniel Jay Millman is an American author and lecturer in the personal development field. He is best-known for the movie Peaceful Warrior, which is based on his own life and taken from one of his books. Wikipedia

✵ 22. February 1946  •  Other names 丹·米爾曼

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Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Dan Millman

Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Dan Millman

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Famous Dan Millman Quotes

“Where are you? Here
What time is it? Now
What are you? This moment.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“There are no ordinary moments.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980), p. 138 - Book two: The warrior's training - The mountain path
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

Dan Millman Quotes about life

“When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.”

“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.”

Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

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

Dan Millman Quotes about happiness

“Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.”

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Dan Millman Quotes

“everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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 book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

“Better to live Until You die.”

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

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

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior

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

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

p 69 - Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)

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

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Book one: The winds of change - The web of illusion
Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980)

“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.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“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.”

Source: Sacred Journey of the Peaceful Warrior

“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.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Source: The Four Purposes of Life: Finding Meaning and Direction in a Changing World

“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.”

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

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

Dan Millman book Way of the Peaceful Warrior

Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior (1980), p. 73 - Book one: The winds of change - Cutting free

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