"If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism……" — 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."
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144 Quotes by Dan Millman
Dan Millman has 144 quotes on this site.
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When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's…
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Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
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When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
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Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person…
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Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of…
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A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of…
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Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
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Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as…
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Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
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Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because…
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
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When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as…
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I…
— Drew Barrymore
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard…
— Roseanne Barr
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When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably…
— Drew Barrymore
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If you want your kids to listen to you, don't yell at them. Whisper. Make them lean in. My kids…
— Mario Batali
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
— Jean Baudrillard
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
— Martha Beck
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
— Martha Beck
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
— Martha Beck
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
— Pope Benedict XVI
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