Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I am not a rodeo clown, like, "Everything is awesome!" I really worked hard on myself and things and struggled to get to a good place, to a better place.

But, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

At the end of the day, nobody can tell you how to tackle failure or how to handle change. The world is very good at encouraging you to go along with the status quo and at basking in your successes. But when you hit a wall in your personal life, and you screw up, people don't give you a chance to navigate your way through it and tap into what's extraordinary about you.

At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them.

A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.

It's one of those things that I use everything that I go through... to be better. I use it all to just fuel the fire, to grow and learn from.

We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.

The journey has moulded me into the person I am today. The journey of my mixed martial arts experience has been filled with ups and downs, but through that, I have come out a much better man.

Do not forget: seek to win all your battles, including those you fight against yourself. Do not fear the scars. Do not be afraid of victory.

After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us toward is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still. It cures our illusions about ourselves and teaches us to depend on God. We learn, on the one hand, that we cannot trust ourselves even in our best moments, and, on the other, that we need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven.

Be not disgusted, nor discouraged, nor dissatisfied, if thou dost not succeed in doing everything according to right principles; but when thou bast failed, return back again, and be content if the greater part of what thou doest is consistent with man's nature, and love this to which thou returnest

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

The lessons we learn from patience will cultivate our character, lift our lives, and heighten our happiness.

The point of life is not who falls down. The point is who gets up and how you do it.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

We always have the potential to rise. Rise out of our slump. Rise out of our negative thoughts. Rise out of our comfort zone. Rise out of our complaints. GET UP AND RISE. Rising is a choice that's one powerful thought away.

Remind thyself, in the darkest moments, that every failure is only a step toward success, ... Your life will never be the same again.