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
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Our intention creates our reality. Wayne Dyer
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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
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Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others. Wayne Dyer
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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. Wayne Dyer
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Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy. Wayne Dyer Quotes
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I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself. Wayne Dyer
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What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won’t always be bleak, there’s a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart. Wayne Dyer
Wayne Dyer Quotes on Life
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one. Wayne Dyer
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. Wayne Dyer
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The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality. Wayne Dyer
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I’d rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not. Wayne Dyer
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People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most. Wayne Dyer
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The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind. Wayne Dyer
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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
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself. Wayne Dyer
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, ‘I release the need for this in my life’. Wayne Dyer
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
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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. Wayne Dyer
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If we focus on what’s ugly, we attract more ugliness into our thoughts, and then into our emotions, and ultimately into our lives. Wayne Dyer
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Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made. Wayne Dyer
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Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment. Wayne Dyer
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The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do. Wayne Dyer
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When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace. Wayne Dyer
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When you dance, your objective is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way. Wayne Dyer
More Inspirational Wayne Dyer Quotes
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There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen. Wayne Dyer
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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. Wayne Dyer
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Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear. Wayne Dyer Quotes
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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. Wayne Dyer
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The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something that you don’t know anything about. Wayne Dyer
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How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer
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What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds. Wayne Dyer
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In a universe that’s an intelligent system with a divine creative force supporting it, there simply can be no accidents. As tough as it is to acknowledge, you had to go through what you went through in order to get to where you are today, and the evidence is that you did. Wayne Dyer
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Conflict cannot survive without your participation. Wayne Dyer
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Only the insecure strive for security. Wayne Dyer
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If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along. Wayne Dyer
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Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world. Wayne Dyer
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When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity. Wayne Dyer
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You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside. Wayne Dyer
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You don’t need to be better than anyone else you just need to be better than you used to be. Wayne Dyer
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You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others. Wayne Dyer
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with. Wayne Dyer
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Thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don’t want. Wayne Dyer
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In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people. Wayne Dyer
Biography
Wayne Walter Dyer, also known as “The Father of Motivation,” was a popular motivational speaker, author, and educator in the fields of personal improvement and spiritual development. More than 40 books, including 21 New York Times bestsellers, were published throughout his four-decade career. He also made thousands of television and radio appearances in addition to producing his own programs.
Dyer was born to parents Melvin Lyle Dyer and Hazel Irene Vollick on May 10, 1940, in Detroit, Michigan. After his father abandoned the family and left his mother to raise three young sons, he spent the better part of his first decade in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. The fact that he spent so much of his childhood in institutional settings like orphanages and foster homes served as both a source of strength and motivation for him. His inspiration was drawn mostly from his own life.
After finishing high school in Denby, Dyer enlisted in the Navy and served from 1958 to 1962. In addition to his master’s degree, he also has a doctorate in counseling from Wayne State. Leadership Development for Group Counselors in the Field of Counselor Education was the topic of his dissertation.
After finishing his doctorate in education at Wayne State University, he went to work as a school counselor. He began writing for academic journals and opening his own psychotherapy practice. His popularity as a speaker inspired many of his students to start writing down his ideas.
A thriving private therapeutic practice followed. After gaining notoriety as a professor of counselor education at St. John’s University, a literary agent approached him about writing a book about his teaching philosophy and experiences. His debut book, Your Erroneous Zones (1976), is now considered a literary classic and has sold over 100 million copies worldwide. Dyer’s career as a motivational speaker and self-help author took off from there; he went on to write 20 more books that became bestsellers and create several successful PBS specials.
In the 1990s, after writing a series of best-selling books about the practical psychology of self-improvement, Dyer felt a change in his thinking that led him to look into the spiritual parts of life.“My purpose is to help people look at themselves and begin to shift their concepts,” he said. “Remember, we are not our country, our race, or religion. We are eternal spirits. Seeing ourselves as spiritual beings without label is a way to transform the world and reach a sacred place for all of humanity.”
Instead of advocating for people to become Christians or Buddhists, he encouraged people to become more like Christ or the Buddha. He had three marriages and eight children altogether. He had been 75 years old when he passed away on August 29, 2015.
Your Erroneous Zones by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
