Wayne Dyer Quotes

It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

We expand what we focus on.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones - through practice.

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

Be Sure you Are Stepping to the Music you Hear - No Matter what Other People Think.

When I was growing up, everybody smoked, including me. When I was 14, I started. We all did it. That was just the way it was. And nowadays there's a stigma attached to it. It's a big shift.

Perhaps the greatest mistake we can make, which causes loss of self-respect, is making the opinions of others more important than our own opinion of ourselves. You'll find no shortage of opinions directed at you. If you allow them to undermine your self-respect, you're seeking the respect of others over your own, and you're abdicating yourself.

You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus.

What we think about and talk about expands into action.

Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.

You don’t need a reason to be happy...your desire to be so is sufficient.

If you blame others for something that happens in your life, then you must wait until they change in order to get better.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

Love is my gift to the world. I fill myself with love, and I send that love out into the world.

Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.

I appreciate all that I am and all that I have. Stop focusing on what you do not have, and shift your consciousness to an appreciation for all that you are and all that you do have.

I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

I Intend to Take Time for Myself to Live the Life that I Came Here to Live.

In interactions with others, instead of trying to be right, why don't we try being kind?

NOW is All There is & the Future is Just Another Present Moment to Live when it Arrives

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.

Be the cure. Don't look outside yourself for it.

Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.

I do not concern myself with being unique, and I do not concern myself with success. I feel I just do and say what I am supposed to. I do not know where it comes from. I go where I am told, and I just allow whatever it is to come out.

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

The war in Iraq, specifically America's role of leadership in this war, is a painful invitation to ask ourselves what, if anything, we've learned from previous wars. I am revolted by the brutal killing of hundreds of thousands of innocent people during any war. And I'm saddened by the apparent inability of human beings to find less violent solutions to conflict and terrorism.

It's one thing to make a pronouncement in a moment of inspiration about what you intend to manifest in your life or what kind of person you intend to become. It's quite another thing to make a commitment to holding that vision regardless of what difficulties or obstacles may surface. Holding the vision involves an unwillingness to compromise what you're visualizing for yourself. It means being willing to suffer through criticism and what appears to be an uncooperative universe.

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

Enjoy everything that happens in your life, but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place, or thing.

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

Every thought that you have impacts you. Shift from a thought that weakens to one that strengthens you.

I've learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there's no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

Refuse to ever use the term 'failure' again about yourself or anyone else. Remind yourself that wehn things didn't go as planned you didn't fail, you only produced a result.

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.

We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.

Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'

The snow, the wind, the sun and the sounds of nature, can all be reminders to you that you're an integral part of the natural world.

Failing is a judgment that we humans place on a given action. Rather than judgment, substitute this attitude: You cannot fail, you can only produce results.

Loving Others Starts with Loving Myself

Live purely in the moment on a rampage of appreciation.

What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

You can't go around being what everyone wants you to be, living your life through other people's rules, and expect to be happy and have inner peace.

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

Retailers should not be filling their minds with all the things that are wrong, with how the economy is going, or with trying to get someplace in the business world. They should enjoy being in this moment and in this day and serving the people who come in.

I think we have to go through everything we go through in our life, and I believe my purpose in life was to teach self-reliance. So I had the experience of relying on myself very early in life in order to have that knowing, because otherwise I would've just read about it. I think of it now as a great advantage that I had. It certainly taught me to rely upon myself at a very young age. And that's what I've been teaching since I was a little boy.

It's never crowded along the extra mile.

Dance... enjoy each step along the way.

The way that I teach now is just by listening. I listen a lot.

Choosing to be kind is also a choice to make the Power of Intention active in your life. The beneficial effects of kindness on the immune system and the increased production of serotonin have been proven. Conversely, unkindness weakens the body and puts us into a state of dissonance. So extend acts of kindness; ask for nothing in return.

If there's a distinction between men and women, I don't pay attention to it. Honestly, I don't see it. I think all of us are part feminine and part masculine.

Our intention creates our reality.

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.

Now is all we have. Everything that has ever happened to you, and anything that is ever going to happen to you, is just a thought.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

The truth is that there is no actual stress or anxiety in the world; it's your thoughts that create these false beliefs. You can't package stress, touch it, or see it. There are only people engaged in stressful thinking.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.