Deepak Chopra

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 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.

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

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.

Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your body and by grasping the link between belief and biology.

Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire.

Practice makes perfect, and nobody’s perfect, so why practice?

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.

God enters by a private door into every individual.

No just cause is futile, even if it’s lost, if it helps make the future better than the past.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

The foolish are like ripples on water, For whatsoever they do is quickly effaced; But the righteous are like carvings upon stone, For their smallest act is durable.

Life grants nothing to us mortals without hard work.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept, or if you have slept, or if you have headache, or sciatica, or leprosy, or thunder-stroke, I beseech you, by all angels, to hold your peace, and not pollute the morning.

They must first judge themselves, that presume to censure others: And such will not be apt to overshoot the Mark. We are too ready to retaliate, rather than forgive, or gain by Love and Information. And yet we could hurt no Man that we believe loves us. Let us then try what Love will do: For if Men did once see we Love them, we should soon find they would not harm us. Force may subdue, but Love gains: And he that forgives first, wins the [Laurel]. If I am even with my Enemy, the Debt is paid; but if I forgive it, I oblige him for ever.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

The disgrace of others often keeps tender minds from vice.