When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous. We are timid only when there is something we can still cling to.
Carlos CastanedaTo die with elation is a crappy way of dying... A warrior dies the hard way. His death must struggle to take him. A warrior does not give himself to it.
Carlos CastanedaMan lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.
Carlos Castaneda