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.

To think is to practice brain chemistry.

It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.

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.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

If you want to reach a state of bliss, then go beyond your ego and the internal dialogue. Make a decision to relinquish the need to control, the need to be approved, and the need to judge. Those are the three things the ego is doing all the time. It’s very important to be aware of them every time they come up.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion’s roar.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the only sin which we never forgive in each other is difference of opinion.

Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know.

Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous.

Try not. Do or do not… there is no try.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

We are inclined to believe those whom we don not know because they have never deceived us.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

He will be loved when dead, who was envied when he was living.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one.