Carlos Castaneda Quotes
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
Amount
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and…
Achieve
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path…
Ask
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
All
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Acting
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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
Attitude
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A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place…
Acts
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for…
Acts
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
Attitude
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We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever we finish talking to ourselves…
Attitude
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what…
Action
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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
All
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A warrior must cultivate the feeling that he has everything needed for the extravagant journey that is his life. What counts for a warrior is…
Alive
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If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
Deal
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The world is such-and-such or so-and-so only because we tell ourselves that that is the way it is.
Inspirational
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The warrior: silent in his struggle, undetainable because he has nothing to lose, functional and efficacious because he has everything to gain.
Efficacious
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Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.
Altering
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All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
All
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A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.
Action
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A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.
Acting
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