Wayne Dyer

By taking responsibility for how you choose to respond to anything or anyone, you're aligning yourself with the beautiful dance of life.

Your children are spiritual beings who come through you not for you.

You can’t always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

Remind yourself that the greatest technique for bringing peace into your life is to always choose being kind when you have a choice between being right or being kind.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

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

If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.

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

If you dont feel fabulous you have deviated from the path of who you really are.

When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.

The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you.

With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.

Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn't matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored.

The presence of passion within you is the greatest gift you can receive. Treat it as a miracle.

Most of us are raised to believe we are ordinary. The anchor of the universe is present in every child. A parent only needs to guide and step aside and let them fulfill their dharma. Help children remember that they can do or be anything.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.

Whenever you're going through a tough time, generally, you become more compassionate, you become softer, you become more thoughtful, kinder. These are all spiritual qualities that will help you to align yourself with God and God consciousness rather than with a split fear-based consciousness.

With our divine connection we are always in touch with the solutions we are seeking.

Only the insecure strive for security.

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

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

Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored.

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.

Infinite patience produces immediate results.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

I don't believe in 'thinking' old. Although I've transitioned through many bodies - a baby, toddler, child, teen, young adult, mid-life and older adult - my spirit is unchanged. I support my body with exercise, my mind with reading and writing, and my spirit with the knowing that I am part of the Divine source of all life.

When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.

If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

Dream and you shall become.

You'll see it when you believe it.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.

Your Highest Self only wants you to be at peace. It does not judge, compare, or demand that you defeat anyone or be better than anyone.

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

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.

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

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.

Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

Practice radical humility. Take no credit for your talents, intellectual abilities, aptitudes, or proficiencies. Be in a state of awe and bewilderment.

When I was an orphan, I was the richest kid at the orphanage because everyone else was complaining about not having anything. But when I discovered that you could get two cents for a Coca-Cola bottle, I would follow people around who were drinking it and ask them if they were almost through with it.

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

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

To be more childlike, you don't have to give up being an adult. The fully integrated person is capable of being both an adult and a child simultaneously. Recapture the childlike feelings of wide-eyed excitement, spontaneous appreciation, cutting loose, and being full of awe and wonder at this magnificent universe.

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

Your body is the garage where you park your soul.

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

Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent.

Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

The greatest service that can be offered to children who show personality traits or inclinations that might not be understood by the adults around them is to allow them to express their own unique humanity.

Be at ease, not dis-ease.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

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

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

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.

It's always interesting about God because it's like all of the religions in the world say that they pray to the same God, and yet they ask that same one God to divide itself up and agree with this one and fight against that one.

I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you're connected to Spirit, or 'inspired,' if you will. When you're inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

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

My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history.

The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self.

Problems in relationships occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

People who feel empowered by your presence become kindred spirits.

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

One of the huge imbalances in life is the disparity between your daily existence, with its routines and habits, and the dream you have within yourself of some extraordinarily satisfying way of living.

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

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.

Authentic empowerment is the knowing that you are on purpose doing Gods work peacefully and harmoniously.

I don't write the books. God writes the books and delivers the speeches.

If I could define enlightenment briefly I would say it is the quiet acceptance of what is.

When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.

Problems in relationship occur because each person is concentrating on what is missing in the other person.

All your behavior results from the thoughts that precede it.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

If you believe it will work out, you'll see opportunities. If you believe it won't, you will see obstacles.

Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire.

Judgment means that you view the world as you are, rather than as it is.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

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.

Take a deep breath and focus on what’s really important.

In my entire life, any time I've ever lost something, I've gotten something even better going around the next corner. It's like one door closes and another door opens. As long as I can walk through the produce section in every grocery store in this country and eat the grapes that they're going to throw away, I know I can be fine.

Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.

I am particularly drawn to the form of meditation called Japa. I know it works.

Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.

Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.

Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

In quantum physics, the study of material at the subatomic level, you get down to the tiniest levels. When they take these subatomic particles, put them in particle accelerators and collide them, quantum physicists discover there's nothing there. There's no one home - no ghost in the machine.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

The law of attraction is this: You don't attract what you want. You attract what you are.

Thursday is end day in weekend. Today you are so tired, will think about how your week was, and how will go on Thursday. With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself, or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything.