Wayne Walter Dyer (1940–2015) was an American self-help and spiritual author and a motivational speaker popular on public radio and television programs. His phenomenally successful first book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976,) became well known.
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Dyer received his Ed.D. degree in counseling from Wayne State University and taught at St. John’s University in New York. As a young psychotherapist in Maui, he published his pop psychology tome Your Erroneous Zones: Step-By-Step Advice for Escaping the Trap of Negative Thinking and Taking Control of Your Life (1976.) To help advertise, Dyer journeyed around America, selling it out of the trunk of his car, pestering bookshops, and giving radio interviews till it became a success. Your Erroneous Zones has sold an estimated 100 million copies, making it one of the best-selling books ever. Banking on its success, Dyer became a champion of “New Age” concepts such as “living in the moment” and making “choices that bring us to a higher awareness.”
Dyer produced more than 40 books borrowing from eastern spirituality and blending in some Christian ideologies. His notable books include W. Real Magic (1993,) Your Sacred Self (1996,) Wisdom of the Ages (1998,) Being in Balance (2006,) Excuses Begone! (2009,) and I Can See Clearly Now (2014.)
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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.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Future, Living, The Present, Present, Acting
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.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Change, Blame, Unhappiness, Waste
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Anger
Be what it is that you are seeking.
—Wayne Dyer
You’ll seldom experience regret for anything that you’ve done. It is what you haven’t done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you’ve lost them forever.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Disappointment, Remorse, Regret
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.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Anger
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Writers, Authors & Writing, Karma, Writing, One liners
Genuinely feeling successful is possible when you detach yourself from the things you desire and allow them to flow to you—and through you.
—Wayne Dyer
Our intention creates our reality.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Reality
Self-worth comes from one thing—thinking that you are worthy.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Self Respect, Thinking
Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Joy, Unhappiness
Anything inside that immobilizes me, gets in my way, keeps me from my goals, is all mine.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Choice
Only the insecure strive for security.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Security
When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Prosperity, Money
There is a big difference between thinking: I’m in a relationship and something’s wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I’m in a relationship and we’ve got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Thoughts, Thought
Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.
—Wayne Dyer
Everything is perfect in the universe—even your desire to improve it.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Universe, Perfection, Desire
The field of intent grows my fingernails, it beats my heart, it digest my food, it writes my books, and it does this for everyone and everything in the universe.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Heart, Universe
What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Spirit, Spirituality
Present-moment living, getting in touch with your “now,” is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives. One thing is certain, you cannot live it until it does appear.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Present, The Present
Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose, doing God’s work, peacefully and harmoniously.
—Wayne Dyer
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Wealth, Abundance
Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Gratitude
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
—Wayne Dyer
Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Freedom
The fact that you are willing to say, “I do not understand, and it is fine,” is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Understanding
The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Death
You can’t get sad enough to make one person joyful.
—Wayne Dyer
Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: One liners, Choices, Decisions
Everything in the universe has a purpose. Indeed, the invisible intelligence that flows through everything in a purposeful fashion is also flowing through you.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Purpose, Intelligence
Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Possibilities, Potential
As you think so shall you be! Since you cannot physically experience another person, you can only experience them in your mind. Conclusion: All of the other people in your life are simply thoughts in your mind. Not physical beings to you, but thoughts. Your relationships are all in how you think about the other people of your life. Your experience of all those people is only in your mind. Your feelings about your lovers come from your thoughts. For example, they may in fact behave in ways that you find offensive. However, your relationship to them when they behave offensively is not determined by their behavior, it is determined only by how you choose to relate to that behavior. Their actions are theirs, you cannot own them, you cannot be them, you can only process them in your mind.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Mind, The Mind
The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Ignorance, Defects, Knowledge
A transcendent being can be any miracle.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Miracles
It’s never crowded on the extra mile.
—Wayne Dyer
Good morning, This is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Good, God
Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what a reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Character
If you’ve ever felt inspired by a purpose or calling, you know the feeling of Spirit working through you. Inspired is our word for in-spirited.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Purpose, Work, Spirit
Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Love, World
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
—Wayne Dyer
Topics: Living, How to Live, Living Well, Life
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