"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it……" — Carlos Castaneda
"Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone."
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Carlos Castaneda
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158 Quotes by Carlos Castaneda
Carlos Castaneda has 158 quotes on this site.
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of…
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion…
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Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If…
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated.
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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,…
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A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts,…
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Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
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We talk to ourselves incessantly about our world. In fact we maintain our world with our internal talk. And whenever…
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what…
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Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all
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In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief;…
— Aristotle
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He…
— Teresa of Avila
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
— Philip James Bailey
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It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush…
— Russell Baker
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Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.
— Abu Bakr
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A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who…
— Saint Basil
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
— Theodore Bikel
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If a man suffers ill, let it be without shame; for this is the only profit when we are dead.…
— Aeschylus
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
— Allan Bloom
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Honest people don't hide their deeds.
— Emily Bronte
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
— Phillips Brooks
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