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.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

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

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

Strivers achieve what dreamers believe.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

If a diplomat says yes, he means perhaps. If he says perhaps he means no. And if he says no, he’s the hell of a diplomat.

There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.