Dan Harris Quotes

• Your demons may have been ejected from the building, but they’re out in the parking lot, doing push-ups.”)

  Dan Harris

  May, Demon, Building

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• There’s no point in being unhappy about things you can’t change, and no point being unhappy about things you can.

  Dan Harris

  Unhappy, Being Unhappy, Can't Change

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• But it was in this moment, lying in bed late at night, that I first realized that the voice in my head—the running commentary that had dominated my field of consciousness since I could remember—was kind of an asshole.

  Dan Harris

  Running, Lying, Night

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• Meditation suffers from a towering PR problem.… If you can get past the cultural baggage, though, what you’ll find is that meditation is simply exercise for your brain.

  Dan Harris

  Exercise, Past, Meditation

  Dan Harris (2014). “10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works--A True Story”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Happiness, it turns out, is a skill-one that you can train, just like you train your body in the gym. This is the next big public health revolution. Get on board.

  Dan Harris

  Motivational, Skills, Revolution

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• If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating.

  Dan Harris

  Cheating, Easy, Enlightened

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• When you have one foot in the future and the other in the past, you piss on the present.

  Dan Harris

  Past, Feet

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• The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

  Dan Harris

  Meditation, Getting Lost, Lost

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The act of catching yourself wandering and coming back to your breath is a bicep curl for your brain.

  Dan Harris

  Brain, Curls, Coming Back

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make you a shithead in other areas of your life. The alternative is to be miserable, and I don't think we're living in a wise way when we do that.

  Dan Harris

  Wise, Thinking, Meditation

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I am still mostly a moron, I do get into bad moods, I am not a perfected being.

  Dan Harris

  Bad Mood, Mood, Moron

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Meditation is just simple brain exercise. I exercise and this made sense to me.

  Dan Harris

  Exercise, Simple, Meditation

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Meditation is hard. You are constantly trying to focus on one thing, usually your breath, and your mind is going to go berserk.

  Dan Harris

  Focus, Meditation, Mind

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Prepare like no other, know that there was nothing left for you to do when it's all said and done. This way a loss is just a stat. The better man will always win if he prepared like no other.

  Dan Harris

  Motivational, Loss, Men

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• Add it all up, and some prominent Obama supporters are now saying that it paints a picture of an opposition driven, in part, by a refusal to accept a black President.

  Dan Harris

  Obama Supporters, Black, President

  "ABC: Obama Critics 'Driven By Refusal to Accept Black President'; NBC Trumpets Carter's Racism Charges". www.newsbusters.org. September 15, 2009.

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