Deepak Chopra Quotes

The wise are wise only because they love.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

My mother taught me to ask people about the things they love.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

What is most important subject you have to learn in life? To learn how to love. This is the challenge that life offers you: to learn bow to love. Not just to accumulate information without knowing what to do with it. But through that love, let that information bear fruit.

If I’d a knowed more, I would a loved more.

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied.

When we really see other people as they are without taking it personally, we can never be hurt by what they say or do.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

All ignorance is the lack of love.

Until the mind can love, and admire, and trust, and hope, and endure, reasoned principles of moral conduct are seeds cast upon the highway of life which the unconscious passenger tramples into dust.

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love.

Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and vision. We just have to learn how to find them. And see, in truth, what they bring us.

Well, I think part of my gift, or if I have one, is that I love listening.

I love human beings. I believe that there is so much to learn from every person you meet, including a child.

Love has more depth as you get older.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.