Deepak Chopra Quotes

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

We are not the masters of our own destiny as far as our case load is concerned.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

Events are always in the saddle.

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Fate carries its own clock.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

There is no armor against fate.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.