Juan Quotes - Page 2

• Self-importance requires spending most of one's life offended by something or someone.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Self, Investing, Spending

  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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• Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Mother, Song

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• I am already given to the power that rules my fate. And I cling to nothing, so I will have nothing to defend. I have no thoughts, so I will see. I fear nothing, so I will remember myself. Detached and at ease, I will dart past the Eagle to be free.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Freedom, Fate, Past

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Eagle's Gift”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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

  Carlos Castaneda

  Friendship, Warrior, Honor

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

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• The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Karma, Fathers Day, Soul

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• When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I used to lean out over the water and try to look past my own face, past the reflection of the boat, past the sun and darkness, down to where the fish were surely swimming. I made up charm songs and word-hopes to tempt the fish, to cause them to mean biting my hook. I believed they would do it if I asked them well and patiently and with the right hope. I am writing my poems like this. I have used the fabric and the people of my life as the bait.

  Tess Gallagher

  Girl, Song, Father

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• There is a flaw with words, they always force us to feel enlightened, but when we turn around to face the world they always fail us and we end up facing the world as we always have, without enlightenment

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, Words Of Wisdom, Enlightenment

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior seeks to act rather than talk.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Warrior

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior must learn to make every act count, since he is going to be here in this world for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Spiritual, Encouragement

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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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 he does, he must know first why he is doing it, and then he must proceed with his actions without having doubts or remorse about them.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Knowledge, Responsibility

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.82, Simon and Schuster

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• For me the world is weird because it is stupendous, awesome, mysterious, unfathomable; my interest has been to convince you that you must assume responsibility for being here, in this marvelous world, in this marvelous desert, in this marvelous time. I want to convince you that you must learn to make every act count, since you are going to be here for only a short while, in fact, too short for witnessing all the marvels of it.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Life, Responsibility, Desert

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• As long as a man feels that he is the most important thing in the world he cannot really appreciate the world around him.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Men, Long, Appreciate

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• A warrior takes his lot, whatever it may be, and accepts it in ultimate humbleness. He accepts in humbleness what he is, not as a grounds for regret but as a living challenge.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Regret, Warrior, Challenges

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• As to Don Juan, confess that it is the sublime of that there sort of writing; it may be bawdy, but is it not good English? It may be profligate, but is it not life, is it not the thing? Could any man have written it who has not lived in the world? and tooled in a post-chaise? in a hackney coach? in a Gondola? against a wall? in a court carriage? in a vis a vis? on a table? and under it?

  Lord Byron

  Life, Wall, Writing

  On 'Don Juan' in a letter to Douglas Kinnaird, October 26 1819: L. A. Marchand (ed.) 'Byron's Letters and Journals' vol. 6 (1978)

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• A warrior, on the other hand, is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. But once his calculations are over he acts. He lets go. That's abandon.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Letting Go, Warrior, Hands

  Carlos Castaneda (1991). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Eye, Warrior, Men

  Carlos Castaneda (2012). “Journey To Ixtlan”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Warrior, Power, People

  Carlos Castaneda (2017). “The Fire From Within”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• The most important thing in the world is family and love.

  John Wooden

  Love, Family, Education

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• Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Attitude, Warrior, Reality

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• Editors seek out the first novels with the seductiveness of Don Juans; the pleasure of discovery is one of the obvious reasons.

  William Targ

  Writing, Discovery, Editors

  William Targ (1975). “Indecent pleasures: the life and colorful times of William Targ”

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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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• 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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• 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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• The first slave came to Florida in 1526. The first one we know by name, Esteban, which means Stephen, came a couple of years later. So, we start with the stories of Juan Garrido and Esteban to show that African-American people have been here a century longer than anyone thought, and that the diversity we see in the African-American community today has existed since the beginning.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Couple, Mean, Years

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• The biggest surprise for me, without a doubt, was that the first black people who came to the United States weren't the 20 who arrived in Jamestown in 1619. All of us had been taught that. The first African came to Florida in 1513. And the huge shock is we know his name, Juan Garrido, and that he wasn't a slave. He was free!

  Henry Louis Gates

  Names, Florida, People

  "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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