Juan Quotes - Page 2

• Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Juan Tripp was a friend. Good name for an airline man, huh? Juan Tripp after another?

  Fay Wray

  Men, Names, Airline

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• There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Life, Dying

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• Whether it's people walking off 'The View' when Bill O'Reilly makes a statement about radical Islam or Juan Williams being fired for expressing his opinion, over-reaching political correctness is chipping away at the fundamental American freedoms of speech and expression.

  Eric Cantor

  Walking Away, Views, Expression

  "Republicans to Add NPR Funding to 'You Cut' Budget Slashing Contest". www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2010.

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• I think Juan stopped short - he got halfway to the destination and got off the train. He is certainly an excellent writer and a good person, but I'm not a nationalist.

  Clarence Thomas

  Thinking, Hair, Good Person

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• Challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Challenges, Be Good

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Juan Hernandez was an actor out of New York, but what made Juan so great and what made Omar so great was that they both already knew how to box, so we didn't have to take them into a gym and teach them how to throw a left jab.

  Charles S. Dutton

  New York, Actors, Omar

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• The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Positive, Attitude, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• Do you know at this very moment you are surrounded by eternity? And do you know that you can use that eternity if you so desire?

  Carlos Castaneda

  Words Of Wisdom, Desire, Use

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• Life in itself is sufficient, self-explanatory and complete.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Self, Sufficient

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.

  Lord Byron

  Funny, Truth, Fiction

  Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93

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• When nothing is for sure, we remain alert, perennially on our toes. It is more exciting not to know which bush the rabbit is hiding behind than to behave as though we knew everything.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Rabbits, Toes, Hiding

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• Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Wise, Wisdom, Matter

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• [Dom Juan] believes neither in Heaven, nor the saints, nor God, nor the Werewolf.

  Moliere

  Believe, Heaven, Religion

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• Self importance is man's greatest enemy.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Self, Enemy

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.230, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do thingsagainst himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Wisdom

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• It doesn't matter how one was brought up. What determines the way one does anything is personal power.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Motivational, Reality, Matter

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.157, Simon and Schuster

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• The hardest thing in the world is to assume the mood of a warrior. It is of no use to be sad and complain and feel justified in doing so,believing that someone is always doing something to us. Nobody is doing anything to anybody, much less to a warrior.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Spiritual, Believe, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan

  Carlos Castaneda

  Tired, Mindfulness, Deaf And Blind

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• I remember once acting really cool on a bus with this girl named Stephanie. When I got home, I realized that I had a really big zit on my forehead. If you have acne problems, you really shouldn't be acting like Don Juan.

  John Cusack

  Girl, Home, Acting

  "Being John Cusack". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. November 23, 2009.

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• Can you imagine me calling myself "Ruiz"? "Pablo Ruiz"? "Diego-José Ruiz"? Or "Juan-Népomucène Ruiz"? I was given I don't know how many names.

  Pablo Picasso

  Names, Calling, Imagine

  Source: www.americansuburbx.com

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• You had one guy who was a slave, and another who wasn't. And I actually know what happened to them. [Juan ] Garrido ended up getting good jobs and a pension in Mexico which was the center of New Spain, as it was called. Esteban ended up being killed by the Zuni Indians.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Jobs, Guy, Spain

  "Gates Unlocked: Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The "The African Americans" Interview". Interview With Kam Williams, lasentinel.net. October 17, 2013.

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• Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
  atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
  Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
  that “the country will be in the hands of white
  Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
  The former being a little superior in education,
  as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Country, Hands, White

  Jon Lee Anderson (2010). “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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