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.

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

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

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.

This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.

Socialists think profits are a vice; I consider losses the real vice.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Substitute ‘damn’ every time you’re inclined to write ‘very;’ your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

When I feel like dancing, I dance. I don’t care if anyone else is dancing or if everyone else is laughing at me. I dance.

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.