"If you don't get what you want, you……" — 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. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality."
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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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Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
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Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
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Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot…
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My personal life is the same. At the end of the day, this is just a job. I love what…
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Just really, really believe in what you're trying to do. Don't let people alter that. Let people advise you and…
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Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike.…
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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Our life is what our thoughts make it. A man will find that as he alters his thoughts toward things…
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When an action is once done, it is right or wrong for ever; no accidental failure of its good or…
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You are the one who must decide whose thoughts you will entertain. You are free to choose-but you are not…
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