Carlos Castaneda Quotes

They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Most of us have learned the hard way that there are very few things you can absolutely count on in life.

You can't depend on polls.

I often compare my voice to an old car you're only 50% sure will turn on when you need it to.

Trust is as slippery as a basket of eels sometimes.

One thing you can rely on is that there will always be uncertainty.

It is not certain that everything is uncertain.

This only is certain, that there is nothing certain.

Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed--sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it's going to be.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

Creative Endeavors are by their nature uncertain.

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think something is one thing, but then it´s another.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

Life ... is never the way one imagines it. It surprises you, it amazes you, and it makes you laugh or cry when you don't expect it.

The candle is not lit To give light, but to testify to the night.

Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?

It's been predictable, in the sense of 'expect the unexpected'.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

There is no praise we have not lavished upon prudence; and yet she cannot assure to us the most trifling event.