Deepak Chopra

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.

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

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Men who for truth and honor’s sake stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep. Who dare while others fly.They build a nation’s pillars deep. And lift them to the sky.

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.

If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

The sky was the color of hard crimson, dripping down a canvas, the moon splashed silver across red. Her soothing balm healing my soul in swathes of calmness, I breathe in her tides and let my body be washed ashore, lying in the sands of eternity.

There was never a child so lovely but his mother was glad to get him to sleep.

Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It’s like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won’t fatten the dog.

Count on it, if a person talks of their misfortune, there is something in it that is not disagreeable to them.

Five minutes of today are worth as much to me, as five minutes in the next millennium. Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

The teacher reminded us that Romes liberties were not auctioned off in a day, but were bought slowly, gradually, furtively, little by little; first with a little corn and oil for the exceedingly poor and wretched, later with corn and oil for voters who were not quite so poor, later still with corn and oil for pretty much every man that had a vote to sellexactly our own history over again.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience.

False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.

Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.