Dan Millman Quotes

"Life requires more than knowledge; it requires intense feeling and constant energy. Life demands right action if knowledge is to come alive."

Dan Millman, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior", p. 30

"Well, here's a story about a guy like you, Dan:

On a construction site in the Midwest, when the lunch whistle blew, all the workers would sit down together to eat. And with singular regularity Sam would open his lunch pail and start to complain.

"Son of a gun!" he'd cry, "not peanut butter and jelly sandwiches again. I hate peanut butter and jelly!"

Sam moaned about his peanut butter and jelly sandwiches day after day after day. Weeks passed and the other workers were getting irritated by his behavior. Finally, another man on the work crew said, "Fer crissakes, Sam, if you hate peanut butter and jelly so much, why don't you just tell yer ol' lady to make you something different?"

"What do you mean, my ol' lady?" Sam replied. "I'm not married. I make my own sandwiches."

Dan Millman, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, pp. 37-38

"That means your good habits must become so strong that they dissolve those which are not useful."

Dan Millman, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, p. 117

"Who cares?" he yelled gleefully. "A fool is 'happy' when his cravings are satisfied. A warrior is happy without reason."

Dan Millman, "The Way of the Peaceful Warrior, p. 197

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