Dan Millman Quotes

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

The future is a process, not a destination.

Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.

Life is a work in progress.

Change is a continuous process. You cannot assess it with the static yardstick of a limited time frame. When a seed is sown into the ground, you cannot immediately see the plant. You have to be patient. With time, it grows into a large tree. And then the flowers bloom, and only then can the fruits be plucked.

Reformation, like education, is a journey, not a destination.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Everything in my life has been a stepping-stone to something else.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

Life is an evolution.

The tree which needs two arms to span its girth sprang from the tiniest shoot. Yon tower, nine stories high, rose from a little mound of earth. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Transformation is a journey without a final destination.

The process is the most beautiful part.

What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

It is precisely the way which is productive - this is the essential thing; becoming is more important than being.

Sometimes we have to be patient because the one thing that is inevitable in life is evolution. Whether it comes at the pace that we are expecting it or not, it’s inevitable.

Don't get locked up into the ultimate goal. Just concentrate on the next step.

Becoming is better than being

In a way, “failure” is just another word for “the journey,” for not being there yet but on the way. It’s the road we walk on to get wherever it is we’re trying to go.

In English we say 'we are' but it's proper to say 'we are becoming' because things are becoming.

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.

If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

Change, like healing, takes time.