Wisdom Quote by Carlos Castaneda — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions.”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.”

“The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today. The wind will be soft and mellow and your hilltop will tremble. As you reach the end of your dance you will look at the sun, for you will never see it again in waking or in dreaming, and then your death will point to the south. To the vastness.”

“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

“Wisdom begins not in knowing answers, but in knowing what must be asked.”

“Author says her father was so diplomatic that when people came to him for solutions, people not only accepted them, but they believed they thought of them.”

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”

“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”