Deepak Chopra

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

According to this law [the law of Dharma], you have a unique talent and a unique way of expressing it. There is something that you can do better than anyone else in the whole world–and for every unique talent and unique expression of that talent, there are also unique needs. When these needs are matched with the creative expression of your talent, that is the spark that creates affluence. Expressing your talents to fulfill needs creates unlimited wealth and abundance.

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

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

The eye is the jewel of the body.

Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crown, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

What I mean is you make the world less ugly just by living in it.

When you’re first figuring yourself out, you care so much about what people think of you.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

Why should I be unhappy? Every parcel of my being is in full bloom.

There is a tendency for things to right themselves.