Carlos Castaneda Quotes

You can never really pay back. You can only pay forward.

We are better pleased to see those on whom we confer benefits than those from whom we receive them.

Sometimes you can't pay it back, so you just have to pay it forward.

The best favors are worth doing for the doing, not because we'll ever get paid back appropriately.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.

But there will come a time and a place to give back, and each individual will recognize that time and place.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: ‘Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor’.

I have to give back. For me, it would be a failure if I could not give back.

I don't need money, and when I do a favor, I expect nothing back.

The more you give to others, the more you get in return.

Helping others is perhaps the greatest joy! You cannot have a perfect day without helping others with no thought of getting something in return.

God blesses us so that we might bless others!

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

When I treat other people with kindness and love, it is part of my way of paying my debt to God and the world for the privilege of living on this planet.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach.

As it is more blessed to receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.