Carlos Castaneda Quotes

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Christina Stead has a Chinese say, "Our old age is perhaps life's decision about us" or, worse, the decision we have made about ourselves without ever realizing we were making it.

The time is short. Eternity is long. It is the time of decision.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

After you're dead [...] it's not gonna matter if you have a few scars. It will matter if you didn't live.

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying

Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've been living without really and truly living and by then it's too late. When you wake up to that kind of realization, it's too late for wishes and regrets. It's even too late to dream.

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.

Say what you have to say now! Don't wait until you're sending blips from the other side.

Sometimes success isn't about making the right decision, it's more about making some decision.

Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.

There’s only two times in life, there’s now and there’s too late.

Not to decide is to decide not to, nowhere in the bible does it promise tomorrow.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy. Or is there no such thing as "too late"? Is there only "late," and is "late" always better than "never"? I don't know.

The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!

Quick decision makers are often stuck behind annoying people in line at Starbucks.

A lot of people should realize they aren't on this earth for long and if you want to do anything you better hurry.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now.