Deepak Chopra Quotes

The most effective strategy for successful living is really no strategy at all. It is, rather, to be real, to be honest, to be authentic, to be you.

Look at those words, 'role' and 'model.' Both of those are fake words, to play a role and to model, that's fake. I'm real. Being real, I drink, I hang out, I party

The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.

The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.

All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control. To be real.

There's an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That's the key for me. If I can accept the truth of 'This is what I'm facing - not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now' - then I have all this freedom to do other things.

In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"

What we want is to be real. Let us not appear to be more than we are. Don't let us put on any cant, any assumed humility, but let us be real; that is the delight of God. God wants us to be real men and women, and if we profess to be what we are not, God knows all about us. God hates sham.

I lose myself in my performances so I wouldn't say that I ever act on stage. I don't find it to be an acting drill for me. I just find it to be something very real that comes from a very gut-driven, honest place.

To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is.

I think the best advice I got is that acting isn't acting - you just want to just be, you want to be just real, be in the moment and react.

When I read 'Be real, don't get caught acting,' I thought, 'How the hell do you do that?'.

I think you either live a real life or you live a weird celebrity pseudolife. I think I lead a really real life.

There's not much that I'm closed off about, and the universe gave me all that so I could help people feel like they don't have to be something they're not or feel like they have to fake happy. There's nothing worse than being fake happy.

Maybe there is no peace in this world. I don't know ... But I know as long as we live we must stay true to ourselves.

[Happiness] comes when we choose to be who we are, to be ourselves, at this present moment in our lives.

Jesus lets us be real with our life and our faith.

The only thing more important than being good is being real. Authenticity is kinder than resignation without conviction. Truth leads to good faster than good leads to truth. Ultimately truth is good, but you have to live it from the inside out.

One of the goals of life is to try and be in touch with one's most personal themes-the values, the ideas, styles, colors that are the touchstones of one's own individual life, its real texture and substance.

Wake-up! Think for yourself, be yourself and return to what is real.

there is no need to justify what we are. there is no need to work hard to become what we are not. we just need to return to our intergrity, to the way we were before we learned to speak. perfect. as little children, we are authentic. only the present time is real for us; wo don't care about the past, and we aren't worried about the future. we enjoy life; we want to explore and have fun. nobody teaches us to be that way; we are born that way.

Return to a simpler life, and you will see that behind the expensive cars, the fashionable clothes, the empty celebrities, the fancy houses and the thick layers of make-up life has real meaning. Behind all the lies there is a deep well of wisdom that we can all drink from, and grow wiser, healthier and happier.

Being comedic is a skill, because there is a fine line where the context is important. And being dramatic is just being honest and real in that moment.

I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real.