Latest Quotes

“Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak ChopraVerified account, Twitter

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It comes from the mind’s mysterious instinct to believe that pain is good, or that it cannot be escaped, o…”

— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“On some dimension or other, every event in life can be causing only one of two things: either it is good for you, or it is bringing up what you need to look at in order to create good for you. Evolution is win-win. Life is self-correcting.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“No single decision you ever made has led in a straight line to where you find yourself now. You peeked down some roads and took a few steps before turning back. You followed some roads that came to a dead end and others that got lost at too many intersections. Ultimately, all roads are connected to…”

— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life

“There is no holy life. There is no war between good and evil. There is no sin and no redemption. None of these things matter to the real you. But they all matter hugely to the false you, the one who believes in the separate self. You have tried to take your separate self, with all its loneliness and…”

— Deepak Chopra, Buddha: A Story Of Enlightenment

“The promise of the web is that anyone can access content using any browser on any device. Woven into this promise are some of humanity’s greatest aspirations — self-determination, freedom, education and discovery. Designing for cross-browser compatibility opens your work up to the largest possible a…”

— Justin Crawford, Make the Web Work for Everyone

“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Return Of Merlin

“Everyone’s worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there’s really an easy way: Stop participating in it.”

— Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky "How To Stop Terrorism?"

“The secret of attraction is to love yourself. Attractive people judge neither themselves nor others. They are open to gestures of love. They think about love, and express their love in every action. They know that love is not a mere sentiment, but the ultimate truth at the heart of the universe.”

— Deepak Chopra, Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide

“The ego relies on the familiar. It is reluctant to experience the unknown, which is they very essence of life.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Third Jesus: The Christ We Cannot Ignore

““You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not competent to think. Therefore it’s important…”

— Noam Chomsky, Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media Series)

“Don’t ridicule, organize.”

— Noam Chomsky, Hopes And Prospects (Amnesty International Lecture)

“Only an aroused public can end this folly before it ends us.”

— Noam Chomsky, Hopes And Prospects (Amnesty International Lecture)

“The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind. There is no shortage of tasks for those who choose the vocation of critical intellectuals, whatever their station in life. They can seek to sweep away the mists of carefully contrived illusion and rev…”

— Noam Chomsky, The Radical Intellectual

“Pain isn't the truth; it's what you have to get through in order to find the truth.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Return Of Merlin

“I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of Germany’s descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of the distinguished scholar of German history Fritz Stern. He tells us that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews ‘a historic process in…”

— Noam Chomsky, The Radical Intellectual

“The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Way Of The Wizard: Twenty Spiritual Lessons for Creating the Life You Want

“One of the striking examples was the invasion of Iraq. U.S. and British intelligence agencies informed their governments that the invasion of Iraq was likely to lead to an increase in terrorism. They didn’t care. In fact, it did. Terrorism increased by a factor of seven the first year after the Iraq…”

— Noam Chomsky, A Roadmap to a Just World — People Reanimating Democracy

“Interviewer: You have been very critical of the press. What would you like the press to do? Noam Chomsky: It’s very simple. I’d like the press to tell the truth about important things.”

— Noam Chomsky, A Roadmap to a Just World — People Reanimating Democracy

“If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision.”

— Deepak Chopra, The Book of Secrets: Unlocking the Hidden Dimensions of Your Life