Deepak Chopra Quotes

Common sense to one person might be something different to another.

The difference is as great between The optics seeing as the objects seen. All manners take a tincture from our own; Or come discolor'd through out passions shown; Or fancy's beam enlarges, multiplies, Contracts, inverts, and gives ten thousand dyes.

We may try to see things as objectively as we please. None the less, we can never see them with any eyes except our own.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.

What one person sees as degrading and disgusting and bad for women might make some women feel empowered and beautiful and strong.

There is no single face in nature, because every eye that looks upon it, sees it from its own angle. So every man's spice-box seasons his own food.

People bring to what they see and feel, the inner weather of their souls and complexion of their minds.

What we feel is not based on our experience, but on our INTERPRETATION of experiences.

The mirror sees the man as beautiful, the mirror loves the man; another mirror sees the man as frightful and hates him; and it is always the same being who produces the impressions.

What's a joy to the one is a nightmare to the other.

I have intentions as a writer, but people - when they're listening to a track - will take from it what they interpret.

You can take a picture of New York and one person looking at it will think it looks really depressing, frightening; and someone else will look at it and think of all the fun things you can do in New York. I think songs are kinda like that.

Everyone thinks their own situation most tragic. I am no exception.

No two people see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will often apply the same principle, recognized by both, differently. Even one and the same person won't always maintain the same views and judgments: earlier convictions must give way to later ones.

I'm not trying to explain other cultures, or to give a fair and balanced account of a country, or the top ten things you need to know. I'm not trying to spread world peace and understanding. I'm not an advocate or an activist or an educator or a journalist. I'm out there trying to tell stories the best I can.

In a way, it's all down to perception, isn't it? And everyone has their own take on everything.

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

Feedback often tells you more about the person who is giving it than about you.

Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all.

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of the field. How would he know? If we want to hear about the field on the other hand, no one is in a better circumstance to tell us-so long as we keep in mind that we are missing all those things the rabbit was in no position to observe.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

It's the Point of Your View that Decides What You See - / One Man's Flop Is Another Man's Hit. / From Manners to Movies, the Picture Keeps Changing / Depending Upon Where You Sit.