Deepak Chopra Quotes

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

Just because you live longer doesn't necessarily give you a greater edge in quality.

So aging is really just the way we deteriorate over time. Lifespan on the other hand is how long we live. We typically refer to that as longevity.

A span of life is nothing. But the man who lives that span, he is something. He can fill that tiny span with meaning, so its quality is immeasurable though its quantity may be insignificant.

A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough.

What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

All diseases run into one, old age.

We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did.

Most people understand life expectancy has changed since Social Security started in 1937 when folks lived to be 59 years old. Today, they live to be 77 years old.

I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it we are inventing ways to shorten it.

Now people live into their 90s and beyond. As long as I have quality of life, I'm good.

I have little doubt that gerontologists will eventually find a way to avoid, or more likely, delay, the unpleasantries of extended life.

I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.

When you extend life span, that's really something. That's hard to do.

Just do the math. In the next 50 to 75 years, people will be living to be 130 and 140. They'll be working until they're 100. It's incredible.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

May you live as long as you want and not want as long as you live.

If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.

In one century, we've added 28 years to our average life span - a change so rapid that our brains couldn't possibly have evolved to accommodate it.

I do absolutely want to be around as long as possible. I tell my son: 'You do realise, I am going to live to 100.'

Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.