Deepak Chopra

The third component of the Law of Dharma is service to humanity–to serve your fellow human beings and to ask yourself the questions,How can I help? How can I help all those that I come into contact with? When you combine the ability to express your unique talent with service to humanity, then you make full use of the Law of Dharma.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

Every person is a God in embryo. Its only desire is to be born.

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.

The measure of a great leader, is their success in bringing everyone around to their opinion twenty years later.

Nobody’s free until everybody’s free.

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

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

The years teach much what the days never knew.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

A myriad of men are born; they labor and sweat and struggle; …they squabble and scold and fight; they scramble for little mean advantages over each other; age creeps upon them; infirmities follow; …those they love are taken from them, and the joy of life is turned to aching grief. It comes at last-the only unpoisoned gift earth ever had for them-and they vanish from a world where they were of no consequence, …a world which will lament them a day and forget them forever.

We mustn’t be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress.

Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

The remedy is worse than the disease.

Ignorance… is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, Sir, I am your most humble servant. You are not his most humble servant. You may say, These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times. You don’t mind the times … You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don’t think foolishly.

…with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.