Deepak Chopra

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.

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

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

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

We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.

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.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Thought is the sculptor who can create the person you want to be.

There was the cell where Fr. Eulalio, a thriving lunatic of eighty-six who was castigating himself for unchristian pride at having all the vowels in his name, and greatly revered for his continuous weeping, went blind in an ecstasy of such howling proportions that his canonization was assured.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

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

Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.Lat.]

A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some area of native land where it may get the love of tender kinship from the earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one’s own homestead.

The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze.

He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think – yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

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

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

A wise man makes what he learns his own, the other shows he is but a copy or a collection at most.