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Movie Lines & Quotes: Peaceful Warrior (2006)

Movie Lines & Quotes: Peaceful Warrior (2006)

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"You work hard and you get results. That's how it happens."
"The Spartans of ancient Greece were gymnasts, too. They vaulted over bulls. Trained their elite warriors that way. Did you know that?" "I know more than you think." "And you think more than you know. But knowledge is not the same as wisdom."
"Are you happy?... You said I could ask you anything." " What does happy have to do with anything?" "Everything."
"So why can't you sleep at night?" "You need some philosophy." "No thanks, Socrates. I get enough at school."
"I'd say maybe you're still asleep. You can live a whole lifetime without ever being awake."
"Hey, Socrates. If you know so much, how come you're working at a gas station?" "This is a service station. We offer service. There's no higher purpose." "Than pumping gas?" "Service to others."
"You sure got a lot of rules about stuff, don't you?" "Not rules. Things I've learned from my own life experience."
"Everyone tells you what to do and what's good for you. They don't want you to find your own answers. They want you to believe theirs." "And let me guess, you want me to believe yours." "No. I want you to stop gathering information from outside yourself and start gathering it from the inside. People are afraid of what's inside, and that's the only place they're ever gonna find what they need."
"Why can't you sleep? Is it because, maybe, late at night, when all the noise dies down and you're lying there in the bed, and thee's nobody around but you, then maybe, you get a little scared? Scared because suddenly everything feels so... empty."
"Sometimes, I don't like myself very much." "People are not their thoughts. They think they are and it brings them all kinds of sadness."
"The mind is just a reflex organ. It reacts to everything. Fills your head with millions of random thoughts a day. None of those thoughts reveal any more about you than a freckle does at the end of your nose."
"You're out of your mind, you know that?" "It's taken a lifetime of practice."
"There's never nothing going on. Take out the trash, Dan. The trash is anything that is keeping you from the only thing that matters, the moment. Here. Now. And when you are truly here and now, you'll be amazed at what you can do and how well you can do it."
"You're in the past, gloating. You're not in the now, living."
"Sometimes you have to lose your mind before you come to your senses."
"When you become a warrior, you learn to meditate in every action." "Letting go of attachments. Like your pride."
"I don't know what to do now." "First realization of a warrior." "What is?" "Not knowing."
"Emotions are natural, like the passing weather."
"Anger, hatred, violence, they're really all just fear. Fear, then, not money is the root of all evil."
"The people that are the hardest to love are usually the ones who need it the most."
"There's never nothing going on. There are no ordinary moments."
"The habit is the problem. All you need to do is be conscious about your choice and responsible for your actions."
"Death isn't sad. The sad thing is most people don't live at all."
"When you feel fear, use the sword. Take it up here and cut the mind to ribbons, slash through all those regrets and fears and anything else that lives in the past or the future."
"A warrior does not give up what he loves, Dan. He finds the love in what he does. A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability. That's the only true courage."
"The accident is your training. Life is choice. You can choose to be a victim or anything else you'd like to be."
"A warrior acts. A fool reacts."
"What if I can't do it?" "That's the future. Throw it out."
"Well, how would we start?" "There is no starting or stopping, only doing."
"Nearly all of humanity shares your predicament, Dan. If you don't get what you want, you suffer, And even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold onto it forever."
"Life has just three rules - paradox, humor, and change." "Paradox. Life is a mystery. Don't waste time trying to figure it out." "Humor. Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure." "Change. Know that nothing stays the same."
"The journey. The journey's what brings us happiness, not the destination."
"Where are you, Dan?" "Here." "What time is it?" "Now." "What are you?" "This moment."
Peaceful Warrior Film Synopsis
Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz) is a gifted athlete whose desire for success drives everything he does. When a mysterious stranger, Socrates (Nick Nolte) opens Dan's eyes to a new vision of strength and understanding, the Olympic hopeful finds that he still has much to learn and more sacrifices to make.