Deepak Chopra Quotes

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

Strong people have strong weaknesses.

I'm bad on passive aggression. I know that.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

I'm good at many, many things, but the one thing I've never been good at is relationships.

I do struggle because I’m attracted to beautiful things, yet at the same time I am actually very aware, in some sense, their lack of value and that the most important things in life are your connections to other people.

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

My greatest strength is to have a great capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant. My greatest weakness is that I don't. I know that's enigmatic, but that's sort of a general formula for anyone, actually.

All our relationships, especially the deep ones, stir up the deepest issues for us that we need to confront and work with.

A power struggle collapses when you withdraw your energy from it. Power struggles become uninteresting to you when you change your intention from winning to learning about yourself.

Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.

When you are in relationship with people, in a thousand and one ways you are provoked, challenged, seduced. Again and again you come to know your pitfalls, your limitations, your anger, your lust, your possessiveness, your jealousy, your sadness, your happiness all moods come and go, you are constantly in a turmoil. But this is the only way to know who you are.

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation.

Everyone we attract into our life is a mirror for us in certain ways. All of our relationships reflect certain parts of us. We all attract certain people into our life who have developed qualities opposite to the ones we are most identified with. In other words, they mirror our disowned selves, and we mirror theirs.

One of the best ways to educate our hearts is to look at our interaction with other people, because our relationships with others are fundamentally a reflection of our relationship with ourselves.

Our conflict is in relationship, at all levels of our existence; and the understanding of this relationship, completely and extensively, is the only real problem that each one has.

Once we begin to question our thoughts, our partners-alive, dead or divorced-are always our greatest teachers. There's no mistake about the person you're with; he or she is the perfect teacher for you, whether or not the relationship works out, and once you enter inquiry, you come to see that clearly.

Someone who is brave enough to withdraw all his projections, [is] an individual who is conscious of a pretty thick shadow.