"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."
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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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Our life is what our thoughts make it.
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Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.
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Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even.
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We've learned how to destroy, but not to create; how to waste, but not to build; how to kill men,…
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If things go wrong, don't go with them.
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Life is simple. Life is not complicated. Life is only one thing: Identify yourself.
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