Wayne Dyer's Quotes

You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

You can't choose up sides on a round world.

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

You can never get enough of what you don't want.

There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

It makes no sense to worry about things you have no control over because there's nothing you can do about them, and why worry about things you do control? The activity of worrying keeps you immobilized.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.

Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Our intention creates our reality.

Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out - because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.

You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.

Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

As long as habit and routine dictate the pattern of living, new dimensions of the soul will not emerge.

Some people are so afraid do die that they never begin to live.

Genius is talent set on fire by courage.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

Happiness is inward, and not outward; and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.

In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Many a treasure besides Ali Baba's is unlocked with a verbal key.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

What we do belongs to what we are; and what we are is what becomes of us.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for.