Deepak Chopra Quotes

Everything that happens to you is self-created.

Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.

You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

When we believe or say we have been offended, we usually mean we feel insulted, mistreated, snubbed, or disrespected. And certainly clumsy, embarrassing, unprincipled, and mean-spirited things do occur in our interactions with other people that would allow us to take offense. However, it ultimately is impossible for another person to offend you or to offend me. Indeed, believing that another person offended us is fundamentally false. To be offended is a choice we make; it is not a condition inflicted or imposed upon us by someone or something else.

If all responsibility is imposed on you, then you may want to exploit the moment and want to be overwhelmed by the responsibility;yet if you try, you will notice that nothing was imposed on you, but that you are yourself this responsibility.

Though I am not always responsible for what happens to me, I am responsible for how I handle what happens to me.

The ten most powerful two-letter words in the English language are: If it is to be, it is up to me.

If you don't accept responsibility for your own actions then you are forever chained to a position of defense.

Our life is our own creation.

And when it is suggested that the inward feelings of power or inward monitions or losses of judgement are the germs out of which the divine machinery developed, I return that truth is just the reverse, that the presence of voices which had to be obeyed were the absolute prerequisite to the conscious stage of mind in which it is the self that is responsible and can debate within itself, can order and direct, and that the creation of such a self is the product of culture. In a sense, we have become our own gods.

Destiny is what every human being creates for oneself. Fate is when you fail to create your own destiny.

How can we resent the life we've created for ourselves?

Who will save your soul, if you won’t save your own?

Creation is not your doing, but the way you are, the way you experience life, the situations you attract, are one hundred percent your doing.

People and things do not upset us. Rather, we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us.

No one makes you feel anything. It is how you react and respond that determines your emotions.

If your world isn't right, the cause is in you.

Everything starts with the inner being, your inner self - it all comes from you and we so often forget that. We think, "He made me angry." He didn't make you angry; you made yourself angry. Don't allow him to get to your inner space.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it.

We are in charge of our attitudes.