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“The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.”
Carlos Castaneda
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything either as a blessing or a curse”
Carlos Casteneda
““If a warrior is to succeed at anything, the success must come gently, with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.””
““Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.””
““To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.””
““When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””
“History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed; Art has remembered the people, because they created.”
William Morris
““A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.””
““A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.””
““A warrior thinks of death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.””
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