Deepak Chopra

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

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

Private men, in fine, are so much their own, that, paying common dues, they are sovereigns of all the rest. Yet the public must and will be served; and they that do it well, deserve public marks of honour and respect. To do so, men must have public minds, as well as salaries; or they will serve private ends at the public cost. Government can never be well administered, but where those intrusted make conscience of well discharging their places.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

There is no one who does not exaggerate!

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey’d.

To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never taught by those who shared the serenity of Nature. For each phase of Nature, though not invisible, is yet not too distinct or obtrusive. It is there to be found when we look for it, but not too demanding of our attention.

Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.

Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

Youth is wasted on the young.

Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him; for where there is nothing but pure misery there never is any recourse to the mention of it.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.