319 Quotes by Dan Millman

You will fail many times, but in failing you will learn, and in learning you will find your way.

If babies held the same tendency toward self-criticism as adults, they might never learn to walk or talk. Can you imagine infants stomping, ‘Aarggh! Screwed up again!’ Fortunately, babies are free of self-criticism. They just keep practicing.

You have been immortal since before you were born and will be long after the body dissolves. The body is Consciousness; never born; never dies; only changes. The mind – your ego, personal beliefs, history, and identity – is all that ends at death.

The secret of change consists in concentrating one’s energy to create the new, and not to fight against the old.

For example, you have a cold now; its physical symptoms tell you when your body needs to rebalance itself, to restore its proper relationship with sunlight, fresh air, simple food. Just so, stressful thoughts reflect a conflict with reality. Stress happens when the mind resists what is.

Ships are safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. So set sail on the stormy sea of love. You’re going to get soaked at times, but at least you’ll know you’re alive.

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.

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.

Death is not sad; the sad thing is that most people don’t really live at all.