Deepak Chopra Quotes

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

Those who run after happiness will never be happy. Happiness is something that has to come to the fore from within.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

I've gotten to a point, where I realize that happiness doesn't come from the outside.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. Vigilantly practice polite indifference to that which we can't control. Your happiness can only be found within.

Gradually as you become curator of your own contentment, you will learn to embrace the gentle yearnings of your heart.

These days, in our materialistic culture, many people are led to believe that money is the ultimate source of happiness. Consequently, when they don’t have enough of it they feel let down. Therefore, it is important to let people know that they have the source of contentment and happiness within themselves, and that it is related to nurturing our natural inner values.

If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.

The more you go within, the more you understand your true nature, and the more joy and happiness you feel in your life.

I believe joy is a spiritual practice we have to work at.

Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance.

Experiment with this a little. During these days that you are here with me, don't nourish any desire for happiness, and then see how your heart becomes filled with happiness. Don't have any desire for peace, and see how the turmoil within you vanishes. Don't beg for contentment and see how contentment showers down on you. Please try this - only then will you understand.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Happiness comes from the full understanding of your own being.

As long as you are being true to yourself, you will always find happiness.

Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.

I've realised I can be happy.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

Getting in touch with your true self must be your first priority.

To me, it's that incredible sense of belonging and peace within your own self and heart that really is joy.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.