Deepak Chopra

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

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.

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.

Silence is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. There is no substitute for the creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability that come from knowing how to contact your core of inner silence. The great Sufi poet Rumi wrote, Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Knowledge exists to be imparted.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they’re a mighty ornery lot. It’s the way they’re raised.

Nature hates calculators.

In the end, people will judge you anyway, so don’t live our life impressing other – live your life impressing yourself.

Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

The connection between us runs so strong and deep. It’s like a steel cable stretching across the ocean bed, so many fathoms below, that even the most skilled and courageous of deep sea divers cannot reach it to cut it. It remains strong, silent, invisible, invincible.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

Love truth, but pardon error.

Tobacco and opium have broad backs, and will cheerfully carry the load of armies, if you choose to make them pay high for such joy as they give and such harm as they do.

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.