Peaceful Warrior Quotes:
35 Peaceful Warrior Quotes to Improve Your Life.
1: “How do you know you haven’t been asleep your whole life? How do you know you’re not asleep right now?” ~Dan Millman
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2: “Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That’s the body’s secret of internal alchemy.”
~Dan Millman
3: “Enlightenment is not an attainment, it is a realization. And when you wake up, everything changes and nothing changes.”
~Dan Millman
4: “Be happy now, without reason, or you never will be at all.”
~Dan Millman
5: “You can live a whole life time never being awake.”
~Dan Millman
6: “Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don’t really live at all.”
~Dan Millman
7: “Live in the Moment", "Empty Your Mind of the Trash"
Wisdom is the Use of Knowledge”
~Dan Millman
8: “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
9: “Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”
~Dan Millman
10: “Be gentle with yourself. Think less and feel more. Be as happy as you can. You only have this moment.”
~Dan Millman
11: “The seasons do not push one another; neither do clouds race the wind across the sky. All things happen in their own good time.”
~Dan Millman
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12: “There are times to let things happen, and times to make things happen. Now is that time. You will either make things happen, watch what happens, or wonder what happened.”
~Dan Millman
13: “The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
~Dan Millman
14: “Warriors, warriors we call ourselves. We fight for splendid virtue, for high endeavor, for sublime wisdom, therefore we call ourselves warriors.”
~Dan Millman
15: “Before you can see the Light, you have to deal with the darkness.”
~Dan Millman
16: “The secret of change is to focus all your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
~Dan Millman
17: “The peaceful warrior’s greatest battles don’t lie in the external world, but within us. These inner hurdles generate most of the obstacles and difficulties we encounter in daily life. They carry greater danger than outer problems, because they slip, unseen and unnoticed, into our every endeavor.”
~Dan Millman
18: “Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.”
~Dan Millman
19: “There are no ordinary moments.”
~Dan Millman
20: “Old urges continue to arise, but urges do not matter; only actions do. A warrior is as a warrior does.”
~Dan Millman
21: “Where are you? Here
What time is it? Now
What are you? This moment.”
~Dan Millman
22: “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.”
~Dan Millman
23: “There is no path to Happiness. Happiness is the path. There is no path to Love. Love is the path. There is no path to Peace. Peace is the path.”
~Dan Millman
24: “A fool is ‘happy’ when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason. That’s what makes happiness the ultimate discipline”
~Dan Millman
25: “There is no victory over death; there is only the realization of Who we all really are.”
~Dan Millman
26: “It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament.”
~Dan Millman
27: “A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does”
~Dan Millman
28: “Pain is a relatively objective, physical phenomenon; suffering is our psychological resistance to what happens. Events may create physical pain, but they do not in themselves create suffering.
Resistance creates suffering. Stress happens when your mind resists what is... The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds. ”
~Dan Millman
29: “So be gentle with yourself; show yourself the same kindness and patience you might show a young child - the child you once were. If you won’t be your own friend, who will be?
~Dan Millman
30: “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.”
~Dan Millman
31: “You focused on the goal, not on the obstacle. This is how we face our lives.”
~Dan Millman
32: “Focus all your energy not on struggling with the old, but on building the new.”
~Dan Millman
33: “The time is now, the place is here. Stay in the present. You can do nothing to change the past, and the future will never come exactly as you plan or hope for.”
~Dan Millman
34: “Silence is the warrior’s art — and meditation is his sword. With it, you’ll cut through your illusions. But understand this: the sword’s usefulness depends upon the swordsman. If you don’t know how to use the weapon properly, it can become a dangerous, deluding, or useless tool. Meditation can initially help you to relax. You may put your ‘sword’ on display, proudly show it to friends. The gleam of this sword distracts many meditators until they abandon it to seek other esoteric techniques.”
~Dan Millman
35: 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. ~Dan Millman
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