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.

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years.

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.

The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.

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

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.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.

To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of the weary pilgrimage.

Work and thou canst escape the reward; whether the work be fine or course, planting corn or writing epics, so only it be honest work, done to thine own approbation, it shall earn a reward to the senses as well as to the thought.

Creativity is a consequence of action, not its motivation. Do what needs to be done and then ask whether it was possible.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

You have just dined, and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity.

Children are all foreigners.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

People die of fright and live of confidence.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.