Deepak Chopra

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.

A verse from the Veda says, ‘What you see, you become.’ In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you are. This is a quite literal statement.

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

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.

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.

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

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.

I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

In this war, a danger there is, of losing who we are.

There are no grades of vanity, there are only grades of ability in concealing it.

To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.

A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.

The purity men love is like the mists which envelope the earth, and not like the azure ether beyond.

Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and root-puller, but guiding, instructive, inspiring.

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that’s walked a song that’s spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is, What it will do with you?

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.