Deepak Chopra

Deepak Chopra

30 quotes

Deepak Chopra (b. 1946), an American alternative medicine advocate, shaped not only their field but the way we think and talk about change, purpose, and modern life. The range of their thinking — from Death to Health — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 45 quotes from Deepak Chopra, each offering a different angle on Death, Health, Wisdom, Time, and Science. Start here and see if you agree: "To think is to practice brain chemistry."

“Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.”

— Deepak Chopra

Time

All Quotes by Deepak Chopra

“I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?”

— Deepak Chopra

Death

“I've always felt that technology can be used to our benefit and should be used to our benefit.”

— Deepak Chopra

Technology

“Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.”

— Deepak Chopra

Beauty

“But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

Good

“We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.”

— Deepak Chopra

Imagination

“I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition and the qualities that make people feel safe and cared for.”

— Deepak Chopra

Leadership

“It is the nature of babies to be in bliss.”

— Deepak Chopra

Nature

“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.”

— Deepak Chopra

Peace

“The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.”

— Deepak Chopra

Experience

“Life gives you plenty of time to do whatever you want to do if you stay in the present moment.”

— Deepak Chopra

Time

“The fear of death comes from limited awareness.”

— Deepak Chopra

Death

“Success comes when people act together failure tends to happen alone.”

— Deepak Chopra

Alone

“You know, religion itself, Eastern and Western, is divisive and quarrelsome anyway.”

— Deepak Chopra

Religion

“In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.”

— Deepak Chopra

Health

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

— Deepak Chopra

Health

“Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.”

— Deepak Chopra

Best

“To think is to practice brain chemistry.”

— Deepak Chopra

Intelligence

“The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.”

— Deepak Chopra

Best

“Traditional science assumes, for the most part, that an objective observer independent reality exists the universe, stars, galaxies, sun, moon and earth would still be there if no one was looking.”

— Deepak Chopra

Science

“Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.”

— Deepak Chopra

Society