Dan Millman Quotes

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

In Buddhism, you have to believe in yourself. You don't believe something external guides your life. You do it yourself.

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

We are each responsible for all of our experiences.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

Too often in life, something happens and we blame other people for us not being happy or satisfied or fulfilled. So the point is, we all have choices, and we make the choice to accept people or situations or to not accept situations.

This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

We are what we make.

I'm very interested in how we take ownership of our own stories and our own lives.

I think I finally have really taken ownership of myself and me as a gymnast.

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves? Who's to blame, who's to credit, but us? Who can change it, any time we wish, but us?

Your legacy is being written by yourself. Make the right decisions.

Take responsibility for making your own life beautiful.

The essential religion is taking the whole responsibility for whatsoever you are. And immediately an insight arises: 'If I am responsible for my suffering, then it is simple, I can drop it. It is my choice. I will not choose it any more.'

Accept that you are where you are and what you are because of your own choices and decisions.