Deepak Chopra Quotes

We often live in the past a lot more than we probably realize.

It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today.

Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.

As the mental endowment of a man varies with the organisation of his accumulated experiences, the better endowed he is, the more readily will he be able to remember his whole past, everything that he has ever thought or heard, seen or done, perceived or felt, the more completely in fact will he be able to reproduce his whole life. Universal remembrance of all its experiences, therefore, is the surest, most general, and most easily proved mark of a genius.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

To articulate the past historically does not mean to recognize it "the way it really was"...It means to seize hold of a memory as it flashes up at a moment of danger.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

Love isn't love until it's past.

The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.

I'm inspired as a writer by any place where I've lived for a significant amount of time that have memories, my past, and stories attached to them, and that's really New York and L.A. Any place where there's ghosts are inspiring.

An actor definitely has to be in the past a well as the present; an actor must react to past experiences every minute, every second.

Art is a means of memorialization of the past, a record of a rapidly vanishing world; a means of exorcising, at least temporarily, the ravages of homesickness. To speak of 'what is past, or passing or to come'-in the most meticulous language thereby to assure its permanence; to honor those we've loved and learned from and must outlive.

Strange, what brings these past things so vividly back to us, sometimes!

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

I think I loved you more that summer than I ever loved anyone.

She'd fallen into the best part of her past.

For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.

I drift along, thinking about the past a great deal. The past is so reliable, so delightful, and the best place to live. I end up there quite often, you know; it's very comfortable and dependable.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.

The past is never where you think you left it.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

If you were feeling sad right now and you recall a sad - or, a very happy memory from the past, it will be tinged with more sadness based on your current feeling. So we felt like that was actually on solid scientific ground .

All pasts are like poems; one can derive a thousand things, but not live in them.

My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.