Deepak Chopra

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world.

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

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.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

The secret of culture is to learn, that a few great points steadily reappear.

For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

I know not any thing more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time the difference between idea and reality. It is by this kind of observation that we grow daily less liable to be disappointed.

The billiard table is better than the doctor.

A lot of power and bravery is practice. And some of that is taking the risk to try and be at the table. And then when you’re at the table, taking that first risk to open your mouth and risk being rejected.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

What is easy is seldom excellent.

Love and you shall be loved. All love is mathematically just, as much as the two sides of an algebraic equation.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

Labor diligently to increase your property.

I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.