Deepak Chopra Quotes

We think that life is about get the girl, get the guy, get the car, get the job, get the house, get the kids, get the better job, get the better car, get the better house, get the promotion, get the office in the corner, get the kids on their way, get the grandkids, get the retirement watch, get the cruise tickets, get the illness, and get the heck out. That's it. That's a good life. But life has nothing to do with any of that. That is not our purpose in living. That is not the Agenda of the Soul.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

By growing a spiritual practice, we are given all that we need.

On a deeper level you are already complete. When you realize that, there is a joyous energy behind what you do.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

Pleasure is not the purpose of man's existence. Joy is.

The purpose of life is the expansion of happiness.

What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy.

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.

All of us are born for a reason, but all of us don't discover why. Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

I think that we are starting to get much more conscious about, you know, the importance of the spiritual path, and we are fulfilling it by paying attention to ourselves.

Awakening self-compassion is often the greatest challenge people face on the spiritual path.

It is not possible to sin enough to be happy. It isn't possible to buy enough to be happy, or to entertain or indulge or pamper ourselves enough to be happy. It is not possible to hide enough or run far enough away from trials and troubles to be happy. Happiness and joy come only when we are living up to who we are... I have never met anyone who was happier because he was immoral, or because he was addicted to something, or because he was dishonest and compromised his integrity.

Most of us did not learn when we were young that our capacity to be self-loving would be shaped by the work we do and whether that work enhances our well-being.

Nothing exists without a purpose. Every experience you have in this lifetime was written for you to grow into the light you were meant to become.

I'm pretty sure there's a lot more to life than being really, really, ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out what that is.

LIFE is WORTH LIVING when you find PURPOSE.

Happiness in the ordinary sense is not what one needs in life, though one is right to aim at it. The true satisfaction is to come through, and see those whom one lives come through.

The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We ask self-centered questions like What do I want to be? What should I do with my life? What are my goals, my ambitions, my dreams for my future? But focusing on ourselves will never reveal our life’s purpose.

The real joy in life comes from finding your true purpose and aligning it with what you do every single day.

The meaning of earthly existence lies not, as we have grown used to thinking, in prospering, but in the development of the soul...

Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.