Carlos Castaneda
All paths lead nowhere, so it is important to choose a path that has heart.
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One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
Love to faults is always blind. Always is to joy inclined, winged, and unconfined. And breaks all chains from every mind.
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.
The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.
Success isn't magic or hocus-pocus, it's simply learning to focus.
A small house will hold a hundred friends.
The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.
No wire hangers, ever !
Success is achieved and maintained by those who try and keep trying.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
Success is the child of audacity.
Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.
Don't say, "If I could, I would". Say, "If I can, I will".
Love is more than a feeling, it's a state of mind.
Fiddle-dee-dee.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.
Years from now, when you talk about this, and you will, be kind.
Love is a daily, mutual exchange of value.
Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Ideas... they have the power
Life is a do-it yourself project.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
And think not you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.
You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose site of the shore.
Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
My father taught me to work ; he did not teach me to love it.
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall , but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles, they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
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Beware what you set your heart upon, for it surely shall be yours.
Whatever you think that you will be. If you think yourself weak, weak you will be , if you think yourself strong, you will be.
If you face a delicate situation, don't go into it wearing your spurs or you'll rip it apart. Instead, dress for the occasion. Cloak yourself in diplomacy. Vest yourself with wisdom, and wear a smile.
It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.
Into the house where joy lives, happiness will gladly come.
Work like you don't need the money, love like you've never been hurt and dance like no one is watching
Bad friends prevent you from having good friends.
The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
The illiterate of the century will not be those who can not read and write, but those who can not learn, unlearn, and relearn.
I am convinced that He ( God ) does not play dice.
The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Be all you can be.
Seize the day.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.
Accomplishment of purpose is better than making a profit.
Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad.
Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.
His eyes have made love to me all evening.
A woman who is loved always has success.
Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character.
Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.
Never Quit.
You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.
Congress is the only insane asylum that's run by the inmates.
The book you don't read cant help.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
He who has never learned to obey can not be a good commander.
The maxim "Nothing but perfection" may be spelled "Paralysis".
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Whatever you vividly imagine, ardently desire, sincerely believe, and enthusiastically act upon must inevitably come to pass!
A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_ , a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Love is not love until love's vulnerable.
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
You don't get to choose how you're going to die, only how you're going to live.
Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.
Learning karate requires self-control and discipline Let a joy keep you. Reach out your hands and take it when it runs by.
Be of love a little more careful than of anything.
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have.
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
To be successful, you must decide exactly what you want to accomplish, then resolve to pay the price to get it.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Love is like a blazing flame, golden and full of warmth.
Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people.
There was no hope on earth, and god seemed to have forgotten us. Some said they saw the son of god, others did not see him. If he had come, he would do some great things as he had done before. We doubted it because we had seen neither him nor his works.
The buck stops here.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
If you ever feel like having a child, go to a restaurant and sit next to one.
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast.
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with.
Why is it that we spend so much of our time preparing for when we can do what we want, instead of just doing what we want right now.
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.
Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good, every action that retards it is evil.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.
Desire can be eradicated from the roots by firmly imbibing the four attributes of : Jnan, Atmanishtha, Vairagya, and the full fledged devotion to god. Faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation, out of them will come my workers.
Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in kansas anymore.
The best and most beautiful things in this world can not be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.