Dan Millman Quotes

You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.

I was really involved with other people's opinions of me, and it got heightened during my film career. I don't have any opinion, good or bad about it, it just was. It's not the way I feel now, and I think yoga has a lot to do with that.

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirations. It means being wholeheartedly engaged in the process that's unfolding, rather than ripping open a budding flower or demanding a caterpillar hurry up and get that chrysalis stage over with.

Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

The deepest gift you can learn in life is about self-love, and that's not going to happen overnight.

Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.

If you love yourself, if you truly love yourself, then you'll see other people in yourself, and you won't behave that way.

Be patient with everyone, but above all with yourself.

Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

The painful thing is that when we buy into disapproval, we are practicing disapproval. When we buy into harshness, we are practicing harshness. The more we do it, the stronger these qualities become. How sad it is that we become so expert at causing harm to ourselves and others. The trick then is to practice gentleness and letting go. We can learn to meet whatever arises with curiosity and not make it such a big deal.

Knowledge is important, but only if we're being kind and gentle with ourselves as we work to discover who we are.

Each aspect within us needs understanding and compassion. If we are unwilling to give it to ourselves how can we expect the world to give it to us?

Compassion directed to oneself is humility.

Patience has nothing to do with suppression. In fact, it has everything to do with a gentle, honest relationship with yourself.

I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.

You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others.

When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves.

I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.

I can live with myself.

I like hanging out with me, and I've accepted everything about me good, bad whatever it is. That's why I'm able to, that's why no one can tell me anything negative about myself.

I'm under no illusion that there are things about me that I'd like to change. I just accept who I am, and I'm proud of it.

First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.