Peaceful Warrior Quotes

• You haven't yet opened your heart fully, to life, to each moment. The peaceful warrior's way is not about invulnerability, but absolute vulnerability--to the world, to life, and to the Presence you felt. All along I've shown you by example that a warrior's life is not about imagined perfection or victory; it is about love. Love is a warrior's sword; wherever it cuts, it gives life, not death.

  Dan Millman

  Heart, Warrior, Cutting

  Dan Millman (2006). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.178, H J Kramer

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• I call myself a Peaceful Warrior... because the battles we fight are on the inside.

  Socrates

  Fighting, Warrior, Peaceful

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• Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change. - Paradox: Life is a mystery; don't waste your time trying to figure it out. - Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure - Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.

  Dan Millman

  Trying, Three, Waste

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• 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

  Love, Happiness, Peace

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• 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

  Inspirational, Happy, Time

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• Where are you? Here
  What time is it? Now
  What are you? This moment.

  Dan Millman

  Peace, Moments

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• 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

  Change, Hope, Time

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• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.

  Dan Millman

  Attitude, Warrior, Attachment

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.208, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

  Dan Millman

  Believe, Lovely, Answers

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• The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.

  Dan Millman

  Life, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• A warrior does not give up what he loves, he finds the love in what he does

  Dan Millman

  Giving Up, Warrior, Doe

  "Peaceful Warrior". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Everything has a purpose, even this, and it's up to you to find it.

  Nick Nolte

  Up To You, Purpose

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Be happy now, without reason - or you never will be at all.

  Dan Millman

  Reason, Way Of The Warrior

  Dan Millman (2007). “Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book that Changes Lives”, p.143, H J Kramer

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• Every positive change - every jump to a higher level of energy and awareness - involves a rite of passage. Each time to ascend to a higher rung on the ladder of personal evolution, we must go through a period of discomfort, of initiation. I have never found an exception.

  Dan Millman

  Change, Courage, Energy

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.81, H J Kramer

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• 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

  Stress, Mind, Resistance

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• Death isn't sad. The sad thing is: most people don't live at all.

  Nick Nolte

  People, Sad Things

  "Fictional character: Socrates". "Peaceful Warrior", www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Those that are the hardest to love, need it the most.

  Pattie Mallette

  Needs, Hardest

  Twitter post from Oct 06, 2012

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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.

  Dan Millman

  Heart, Forever, Suffering

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.34, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Peaceful warriors have the patience to wait until the mud settles and the water clears. They remain unmoving until the right time, so the right action arises by itself. They do not seek fulfillment, but wait with open arms to welcome all things.

  Dan Millman

  Patience, Warrior, Water

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.4, H J Kramer

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• You don't get what you want. You get what you are.

  Wayne Dyer

  Want, Way Of The Warrior, Knowing What You Want

  "You Are God". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. October, 2014.

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• 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

  Thinking, Cells, Secret

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.29, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• . . . Action always happens in the present, because it is an expression of the body, which can only exist in the here and now. But the mind is like a phantom that lives only in the past or future. It's only power over you is to draw your attention our of the present.

  Dan Millman

  Past, Expression, Over You

  Dan Millman (2000). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book that Changes Lives”, p.164, H J Kramer

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• To be authentic literally means to be your own author.

  Dan Millman

  Mean

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• Moderation? It's mediocrity, fear, and confusion in disguise. It's the devil's dilemma. It's neither doing nor not doing. It's the wobbling compromise that makes no one happy. Moderation is for the bland, the apologetic, for the fence-sitters of the world afraid to take a stand. It's for those afraid to laugh or cry, for those afraid to live or die. Moderation...is lukewarm tea, the devil's own brew.

  Dan Millman

  Courage, Fear, Laughter

  Dan Millman (2009). “Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives”, p.163, ReadHowYouWant.com

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