Dan Millman / Peaceful Warrior

A deeper life waits
on the other side of despair.
-Jean-Paul Sartre

I am here to live out loud.
-Emile Zola

Those who wish to sing always find a song.
-Swedish Proverb

Every path has its puddles.
-Proverb

The best time to relax
is when you don’t have time for it.
-Sydney J. Harris

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.
-Portuguese proverb

The way you see the world
depends on your own energy,
frequency, rate of vibration.
When your energy changes,
the world will look different.
Like those days when everyone
smiles at you because you’re smiling.
-Thaddeus Golas

I think of life itself, now, as a
wonderful play
I've written for myself.
My purpose is to have
the most fun playing my part.
-Shirley MacLaine

Far away are my
highest aspirations.
I may not reach them,
but I can look up
and see their beauty.
I believe in them and try
to follow where they lead.
-Louisa May Alcott

I saw a stonecutter hammering at his rock
a hundred times without a crack appearing;
then, on the next blow, that rock split in two.
It was not that final blow that did it,
but all that had gone before.
-Jacob August Riis

Do not wait for life, nor long for it;.
the ultimate miracle is here, now.
-Marcel Proust

Does this day belong to us
or do we belong to this day?
-Proverb

How will you ever know if you can
paint that picture, run that business,
sell that vacuum cleaner,
earn that degree, hold that office,
make that speech, win that game,
marry that special person, write that book,
bake that soufflé, build that house-
unless you try it?
-Richard M. Devos

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There's a part of everything living
that wants to become itself —
the tadpole into the frog,
the chrysalis into the butterfly,
a damaged human being
into a whole one.
That is spirituality.
-Ellen Bass

True patriotism hates injustice
in its own land
more than anywhere else.
-Clarence Darrow

It is a little embarrassing that,
after forty-five years of research and study,
the best advice I can give to people is
to be a little kinder to each other.
-Aldous Huxley

When you were born,
you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live so that when you die,
the world will cry and you can rejoice.
-First Nations proverb

Correcting myself I correct the world.
The sun does not correct anyone.
It simply shines and
the whole world is full of light.
Transforming yourself
gives light to the whole world.
-Ramana Maharshi

Champions are those who get up
even when they can’t.
-Jack Dempsey

We are made great or small by our own will.
-J.C.F. von Schiller

To become a champion takes will and skill,
but the most important thing is will.
- Muhammed Ali

Change the world based on a love of mankind.
But if that love is out of reach,
common sense seems the next best option.
-Bessie Head

My country is the world
and my countrymen, humankind.
-William Lloyd Garrison

You can spend your life any way you want,
but you can spend it only once.
-John C. Maxwell

Every positive change, every leap to
a higher level of energy and awareness,
involves a rite of passage,
a period of discomfort and initiation.
-Dan Millman

Learn to wish
that everything should come to pass
exactly as it does.
-Epictetus

And then respond as appropriate . . .
Dan

To test your memory, recall
what you were worrying about
one year ago today.
-E. Joseph Cossman

Your name and body came from your parents, who taught you to speak. Your body is sustained by food produced and processed by strangers. Your clothes were created by others, purchased with money given to you. Even your ideas come out of nowhere. Our lives are borrowed for a time.
-David K Reynolds

Climbing out of a dark hole may develop
the strength climb mountains.
-Dan Millman

Take a tip from nature:
Your ears aren’t designed to shut,
but your mouth is.
-Proverb

Some people believe that heroics change the world;
I'm awed by the heroism of those who
make one small difference after another.
-Ellen Goodman