Carlos Castaneda Quotes

And yet, I found I could survive. I was alert, I felt the pain - the aching loss that radiated out from my chest, sending wracking waves of hurt through my limbs and head - but it was manageable. I could live through it. I didn't feel like the pain had weakened over time, rather that I'd grown strong enough to bear it.

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.

Happiness is something you lay siege to, it is a battle like a game of go. I will take hold of all the pain and snuff it out.

As a young child, I was never a crier. I never cried to get my way, or even when I was in pain.

The secret of joy is the mastery of pain.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

God abandons only those who abandon themselves, and whoever has the courage to shut up his sorrow within his own heart is stronger to fight against it than he who complains.

Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.

Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!

He who rejoices even at the stake triumphs not over pain but over the absence of pain where he had anticipated feeling it. A parable.

Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed

He smiled despite the grief he felt at the deaths of his men; he smiled because that was what he did. That was how he proved to the Lord Ruler-and to himself-that he wasn't beaten.

We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering.

Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?" neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility. . . .

We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, "Oh, nothing!" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts— not to hurt others.

You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low.

Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

I was trained to be very tough. My mom told me I shouldn't cry; I shouldn't be afraid of anything.

I've always been proud of the fact that I can hold it together and I rarely break. It's a point of pride for me.

Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them

For years I used to think that you had to hide your emotions to show that you are strong.

Never let your face show how hard they are taking your ass.

Strength doesn't mean an absence of pain.

Being raised, I think, in a household where your parents really taught you never to let people see you sweatin' - that's the motto I live by.