Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carlos Castaneda

Seeing energy as it flows is an imperious need on the path of knowledge. Ultimately, all the effort of sorcerers is guided to that end. It is not enough for a warrior to know that the universe is energy; he has to verify it for himself.

Carlos Castaneda

If a warrior wants to pay back for all the favors he has received, and he has no one in particular to address his payment to, he can address it to the spirit of man, That's always a very small account, and whatever one puts in it is more than enough.

Carlos Castaneda

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.

Carlos Castaneda

Knowledge for a warrior is something that comes at once, engulfs him, and passes on

Carlos Castaneda

When a warrior has put an end to his routines, when he doesn't care anymore whether he has company or is alone, because he has heard the silent whisper of the spirit; then you can say that, truly, he has died. From that point on, even the simplest things in life become extraordinary for him.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior never worries about his fear.

Carlos Castaneda

Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power. Only under those conditions can warriors acquire the sobriety and serenity to withstand the pressure of the unknowable.

Carlos Castaneda

The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.

Carlos Castaneda

Once a man worries, he clings to anything out of desperation; and once he clings he is bound to get exhausted or to exhaust whomever or whatever he is clinging to. A warrior-hunter, on the other hand, knows he will lure game into his traps over and over again, so he doesn't worry.

Carlos Castaneda

It isn't that a warrior learns shamanism as time goes by; rather, what he learns as time goes by is to save energy. This energy will enable him to handle some of the energy fields which are ordinarily inaccessible to him. Shamanism is a state of awareness, the ability to use energy fields that are not employed in perceiving the everyday-life world that we know.

Carlos Castaneda

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 our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.

Carlos Castaneda

A warrior lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting.

Dan Millman

Remember that life develops what it demands - the toughest path creates the strongest warrior. Pray not for a lighter load, but for stronger shoulders.

Dan Millman

The warrior acts, the fool reacts.

Dan Millman

When you become fully responisble for your life, you can become fully human; once you become human, you may discover what it mens to be a warrior.

Dan Millman

The warrior is Here, Now.

Dan Millman

Anybody can be happy when things are going well, and I've learned that. But when things aren't going well it draws out the inner warrior in us to radiate that and bring whatever happiness we can to the situation.

Confucius

A good man does not make a warrior, just as good steel does not go for nails.

Confucius

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

David Gemmell

Fear is an aid to the warrior. It is a small fire burning. It heats the muscles, making us stronger. Panic comes when the fire is out of control, consuming all courage and pride.

David Gemmell

Do not speak badly of yourself, for the warrior that is inside you hears your words and is lessened by them.

Cassandra Clare

[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.

Evangeline Lilly

For me there's a need for balance - fulfilling the sensitive side, letting my guard down, holding back the warrior in me. And I have to be vulnerable which is very hard for me to do.

Nick Nolte

A warrior is not about perfection or victory or invulnerability. He's about absolute vulnerability.

Muammar al-Gaddafi

I am a Bedouin warrior who brought glory to Libya and will die a martyr.

Ismail Haniyeh

We regard this as a continuation of the American policy based on oppression and the shedding of Muslim and Arab blood…We condemn the assassination and the killing of an Arab holy warrior. We ask God to offer him mercy with the true believers and the martyrs.

H. G. Wells

You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.

Miyamoto Musashi

The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything.

Miyamoto Musashi

The warrior is different in that studying the Way of strategy is based on overcoming men

Miyamoto Musashi

One must make the warrior walk his everyday walk.

Miyamoto Musashi

It is said the warrior's is the twofold Way of pen and sword, and he should have a taste for both Ways. Even if a man has no natural ability he can be a warrior by sticking assiduously to both divisions of the Way.

Miyamoto Musashi

...most warriors only perform tricks. The way of the warrior is filled with soul and feeling

Miyamoto Musashi

A warrior has no confusion in his mind...This is true emptiness.