Deepak Chopra Quotes

I have never gotten into the label thing.

Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?' I avoid the trap of easy definition.

Oh, I don't like labels.

Being bisexual, being bipolar, being biracial - it's been used to define me, but I am desperate to be indefinable.

I hate labels, and I wear no labels. When a man has to put something around his neck and say I am, he isn't.

You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

To define yourself is to limit yourself. Without labels you remain the infinite being.

You can survive without a label... matter a fact, you're better off without one!

The original sin is to limit the Is. Don't.

Have you ever said, 'I can't do that! I'm just not like that!'? If you've ever used this phrase, you've hit the boundary of how you've defined yourself in the past, and it's affecting the quality of your present-day life. Ask yourself, 'Where did these beliefs about who I am come from, and how old are they?' Maybe it's time to update your identity.

A Jew is anyone who says he is.

the world loves stupid labels. i wish we got to choose our own.

Am I a fruitcake? I don't know. Perception is reality, so if I sit here and say, "I'm not a fruitcake, I'm a lemon cake," it doesn't matter. What you see me as in your world is what I am; it doesn't matter what I am - do you know what I mean? To me, I know what my real problems are - and they're certainly not about cake. And that's just the way it is.

Examine the labels you apply to yourself. Every label is a boundary or limit you will not let yourself cross.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

Who ARE You?" This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, I--I hardly know, sir, just at present-- at least I know who I WAS when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.

It's not a little thing to lose your identification and who you believe yourself to be.

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not.

I've always defined myself as a writer, I've never decided what it was I was gonna write. [...] I always fancied myself one, but I'm not. I'm so far from a writer.

Anytime there's separatism going on. It happens all the time, because the illusion before us is that we are separate. It gives us this sense of egoic identity, which is lovely in its own way.

We could call you an ambisexual. A duosexual. A—” “Do I really have to find a word for it?” Kyle interrupts. “Can’t it just be what it is?” “Of course,” I say, even though in the bigger world I’m not so sure. The world loves stupid labels. I wish we got to choose our own. We pause for a moment. I wonder if that’s all—if he just needed to say the truth and have it heard. But then Kyle looks at me with unsure eyes and says, “You see, I don’t know who I’m supposed to be.” “Nobody does,” I assure him.

At present our only true names are nicknames.

When you grow up believing you are what you do, when you're done, you aren't.

You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in order to get something you want. But it's a catch-22: all of those things you're willing to lose are what make you recognizable. Lose them, and you've lost yourself.

Enlightened groups can exist, as long as the individuals' sense of identity is not derived from a mentally defined image of us.