Deepak Chopra

The possibility of stepping into a higher plane is quite real for everyone. It requires no force or effort or sacrifice. It involves little more than changing our ideas about what is normal.

Our most important task is to transform our consciousness so that violence is no longer an option for us in our personal lives, that understanding that a world of peace is possible only if we relate to each other as peaceful beings, one individual at a time.

Most people think that aging is irreversible and we know that there are mechanisms even in the human machinery that allow for the reversal of aging, through correction of diet, through anti-oxidants, through removal of toxins from the body, through exercise, through yoga and breathing techniques, and through meditation.

If you want to get what you want give up being right.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar – that I call an achievement.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again.

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Right is right even if everyone is against it and wrong is wrong even if everyone is for it.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Suspicion is most often useless pain.