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Choice means giving up something you want for something else you want more.
Dan Millman
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Dan Millman
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: February 22
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Competitive Diver
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Daniel Jay Millman
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Energy follows thought we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
Dan Millman
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.
Dan Millman
Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.
Dan Millman
Bad people don't go to hell, they are already there.
Dan Millman
My parents, like others of The Greatest Generation who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the best possible life for their children. My mother and father both attended college but dropped out to earn a living during the Depression, working the rest of their lives at blue-collar work.
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A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.
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Embrace the higher truth that everything comes to pass exactly as it should. Find peace and wisdom by accepting what is.
Dan Millman
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.
Dan Millman
Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark.
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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.
Dan Millman
The world's a puzzle no need to make sense out of it. - Socrates
Dan Millman
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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Carry your groceries, garden, and do other activities that keep you moving. You will add more years to your life and more life to your years.
Dan Millman
Here and now...breathe and relax...in battle and in life
Dan Millman
A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.When we feel stuck, going nowhere -- even starting to slipbackward -- we may actually be backing up to get a runningstart.
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The light will disturb us when we're comfortable, and comfort us when we're disturbed. We turn to spirit for help when our foundations are shaking only to find out that it is spirit who is shaking them!
Dan Millman
The secret of change consists in concentrating one's energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.
Dan Millman
...when you resist what happens, your mind begins to race the same thoughts that impinge upon you are actually created by you.
Dan Millman
We discover our character through decisions under pressure.
Dan Millman
We are here to live moment by moment, and each moment brings a task, a challenge, a goal. It's good to have big goals, but we need to connect the dots between where we are and where we are going, one day, one moment at a time.
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