Carlos Castaneda Quotes

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

Within you, you will find everything you need to be complete.

Seek not for fresher founts afar, just drop you bucket where you are.

Most projects that I've done are really not about the project. They're about what's going on inside and around, that journey that we're all on, and what I can do to help that journey further itself and be of encouragement to somebody.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

If I were a carpenter, I'd find a way to empower using that skill. I'm using as much as God has given - my mind, my voice, my heart, my art forms. This is the highest form of expression on the planet from God, to me, to you.

I consider my girls the greatest gift from God in life. And I also love the career that I have built, lost and rebuilt. But the highs and lows of my career would not have been as exciting or manageable to me if I didn't have children and a partner for life with whom to share it all.

I don't need love or a man to complete me,and someday, you'll find that true for yourself. Suitors will come and go, but you will remain.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

What you make of your life is up to you. You have all the tools and resources you need. Your answers lie inside of you.

Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need

It's not when you realize that nothing can help you — religion, pride, anything — it's when you realize that you don't need any aid.

We need to develop a sense of sufficiency to be happy.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

Everything we will ever need, we already have within us.

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own.

In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside force which, however vigilant one supposes it to be, can never answer all social needs. Man, thus accustomed to seek his well-being only through his own efforts, raises himself in his own opinion as he does in the opinion of others; his soul becomes larger and stronger at the same time.

I'm happy if I can help anybody. I'm more than happy to, but you have to find your own path.

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down.

Everything that you need to succeed has been given to you.

The externals are simply so many props; everything we need is within us.

Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply.