Dan Millman Quotes

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

The older I get the more laid back I am about whatever happens, happens.

Ain't no sense worryin' about the things you got control over, 'cause if you got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'. And ain't no sense worryin' about the things you don't got control over, 'cause if you don't got control over 'em, ain't no sense worryin'.

Honestly, I just assume that whatever is going to happen to me is going to happen. There it goes: someone is there, someone isn't there. This girl is here. This food is here. I think the clever people are the ones who do a little as possible.

The more I expect, the more unhappy I am going to be. The more I accept, the more serene I am.

As life has a way of unfolding as it is meant to, I have learned to trust life.

I trust the flow of life.

I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them there's no sense in getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them there's no sense in getting upset.

Whatever happens, happens. Accept things and move on.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I tend to let the chips fall where they may. I don't know if that's right or wrong.

With situations that you have no power over, there is no point in worrying about one thing or another. Why think about things that you can't control?

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

To accept the inevitable; neither to struggle against it nor murmur at it-this is the great lesson of life.

I think that when you let go and "throw it all away" and stop getting attached and say "whatever happens, happens", you don't invest too much in anything particular, and things work out.

A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

Everything's happened to me. Nothing can happen to me now.

What does it matter, all is grace.

Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

Whatever happens is going to happen, whether you're sitting by the phone anxious and worried about it or not.

I should not mind anything at all.