Deepak Chopra Quotes

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100)

We only have problems we really want to have.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

The only thing on earth that can determine itself is a human soul.

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there. We can still do things. And we can try to feel okay about them.

Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.

My grand uncle was a traditional priest, and he would always say to me as a kid, 'We stand in our own light,' which essentially for him meant we were entirely responsible for a lot of what happens to us and for the ways in which our lives play out.

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.

It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

The simplest way to say it is that I think we're all dealt these cards in life, but the cards in and of themselves don't read one way or the other. It's up to you to home in and cultivate whatever you've got in your hand.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

You get to choose what monsters you want to slay. I'm sorry to say this again, but let's face it - the Force is with you.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

Ultimately, it's one's upbringing, consciousness and circumstances that decide the path you'll choose.

Nothing in your past is in your present making you do anything you don't choose to do. You are not your past history! You are not your past failures! You are not how others have at one time treated you! You are only who you are and what you do now in this moment.

Most of society thinks that biography is destiny, that the past equals the future, and of course it does if you live there...but what we really have to remind ourselves is that decision is the ultimate power.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

You get to decide what energy you choose to download in any moment. No one but you gets to decide who you wish to be.