Dan Millman Quotes

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

What you've got to do is recognize that you don't control everything for a start, you've got to play the cards you're dealt, the hand of cards you're dealt, as best you can, and that's what I always seek to do.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

Life shows us all the time, really and truly, that you're not in control of most things, but at the same time, the things that you are able to control, you should definitely hold on to that. But it's okay that you can't control every aspect of your life.

You can't always have your way. Sometimes life is going to go a different direction. But you've got to learn how to adjust, and you've got to learn how to deal with it.

In this speedy world of ours when facts are multiplying rapidly and giant rearrangements are happening all around us, it seems dangerous to be made nervous by the new - to want what we can never have, to want things not to be rearranged. It would be better to be able to take the leap, which is to be able not only to live with change and newness, but even to help make it.

You can’t control every contingency. You have to accept that. Let it scare you. Trust that it’ll be okay anyway.

Life doesn't care about your vision. You just gotta roll with it.

Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

That's life. You've got to deal with it, good and bad. We'll be all right. I mean, if we make the chase, we make it. If we don't, we don't.

It’s like in soccer: you have to deal with the penalties where they fall; you can’t choose where they’re going to land. Life is like that, and you have to deal with it even if you don’t like it.

One of the most predictable things in life is there will be change. You are better off if you can have a say in the change. But you are ignorant or naive if you don't think there will be change, whether you want it to or not.

If you get too attached to how you want it to come out the other side, you freeze. I try to trust that it will work out in the end.

I've had a long line of failed television programs, pilots that were never picked up, series that didn't go very long. I've learned that there's really nothing you can do. If it's not in my control, I try not to worry about it.

If I learned anything from Betty coming into my life, it's to just be open to all the things that come along.

You can't control everything that comes to you.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

I have no choice about whether or not I have Parkinson's. I have nothing but choices about how I react to it. In those choices, there's freedom to do a lot of things in areas that I wouldn't have otherwise found myself in.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Most of life is showing up. You do the best you can, which varies from day to day.

It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I just roll with the punches.