Carlos Castaneda Quotes

Clearly I've got an ego.

I never thought of myself as handsome.

I don't get self-conscious. I'm not vain in that way.

I have just enough attention to feel glamorous and important.

What is more important, the reality or the perception? I am perceived to be an important designer. It's enough for me.

My name has zero value.

I don't think I'm such an amazing person who needs to be written about.

Every one thinks highly of his own

People see us as no better than we are.

Of course I have an ego.

Vanity is not important to me.

Whenever you get one inch above the ground in your own esteem, you are that inch too high!

Men do not take to vanity, because they are taught at an early age that it is wrong to be vain.

Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small.

Vanity may be likened to the smooth-skinned and velvet-footed mouse, nibbling about forever in expectation of a crumb; while self-esteem is too apt to take the likeness of the huge butcher's dog, who carries off your steaks, and growls at you as be goes.

To this principle of vanity, which philosophers call a mean one, and which I do not, I owe a great part of the figure which I have made in life.

Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments).

Every man, however little, makes a figure in his own eyes.

Vanity is a confounded donkey, very apt to put his head between his legs, and chuck us over; but pride is a fine horse, that will carry us over the ground, and enable us to distance our fellow-travelers.

Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

I'm not an outstanding personality, and I'm certainly no beauty. Acting ability is all I've got to trade on.

I don't know what a supermodel is. If they call me that, I might have to punch them. It's just so vain and so unreal.

It's kind of weird, because I look at myself as just a normal person. My friends get rejected all the time, so why shouldn't I? I don't think I'm anything special.

I'm not that interesting of a person.

I don't act to be popular or see my face on the cover of magazines every time I go out to get coffee. I don't want to think about me all the time and what I look like.