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Responsibility is a grace you give yourself not an obligation

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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Competitive Diver
Motivational Speaker
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Daniel Jay Millman
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No matter what we feel or know, no matter what our potential gifts or talents, only action brings them to life. Those of us who only think we understand concepts such as commitment, courage, and love, one day discover that we only know when we act doing becomes understanding.
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Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.
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No need to feel brave or confident just behave that way.
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Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.
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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.
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If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig ten holes each 10 feet deep.
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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.
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As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water. Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?
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Ultimately, fear of failure generates a vicious circle that creates what is most feared. To break this cycle, you need to make peace with failure. It isn't enough to merely tolerate it you need to appreciate the failure and use it.
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Life is the only real teacher. It offers many experiences....But the lessons of experience are hidden.
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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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If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.
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