Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I have always been a very positive person and tried to bring the positives from the hardest moments.

What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I really believe that.

Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

'That which does not kill me makes me stronger' is not a law of the universe. What it can be, if we so choose, is a resolution.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you're a dead man? You go to work.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I really believe in the old expression that what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. It's through adversity that you find the strength you never knew you had.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it's important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

All my life, I have been a positive thinker... I have always been able to survive by telling myself that no matter how bad things are, they will one day be better. And that out of every event - no matter how tragic - one can always find a way to survive and even, perhaps, to be a little bit happy.

Overcoming adversity not only makes you stronger, it makes you more hopeful.

I think hard times either bring out the best in you or the worst, and I think I've luckily managed to bring out all the positives in myself.

When you have bad moments, you have to improve. You have to become stronger to deal with it, and I believe I have become stronger.

Disappointment builds character and strength.

When you are being bullied a long way from home, when you face that challenge, that is where you find out a lot about yourself.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Life is a refining process. Our response to it determines whether we'll be ground down or polished up. On a piano, one person sits down and plays sonatas, while another merely bangs away at "Chopsticks." The piano is not responsible. It's how you touch the keys that makes the difference. It's how you play what life gives you that determines your joy and shine.

Never let the worst of you get the best of you.