Top 100 Dyer's Quotes
#2. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#3. Choose to see death as simply removing a garment or moving from one room to another ... it's merely a transition.
Wayne Dyer
#4. I AM' the Governing Presence, governing in Perfect Divine Order, commanding Harmony, Happiness, and the Presence of God's Opulence in my mind, my
Wayne W. Dyer
#5. If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.
Wayne Dyer
#6. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. - Confucius The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about. - Wayne Dyer
Max Tegmark
#7. It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.
Wayne Dyer
#8. My goodness, there's nothing that feels better than to meditate, than to get quiet, and then to be at peace, and to tell someone you love them.
Wayne Dyer
#9. I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing.
Wayne Dyer
#10. If it excites you, if it makes you feel good, it's God speaking to you.
Wayne Dyer
#11. If we can bring spiritual energy, which is love, kindness, forgiveness and so on, to the problem, we can dissolve it. It's really just a matter of changing our mind about how we're going to process the events in our lives.
Wayne Dyer
#12. There's a big difference between oneness and sameness. Oneness implies that we're all connected and that we all come from the same source. Sameness implies that we all have to do things and exactly think the same way as everybody else does.
Wayne Dyer
#13. I have a suit in my closet with the pocket cut out. It's a reminder to me that I won't be taking anything with me. The last suit I wear won't need any pockets.
Wayne Dyer
#14. If you ask every American out there what kind of a people we are, we would all say, "Oh, we're really good people. We do good things in the world." Then you go around the world and ask what America is like, there's a completely different conceptualization of what we are.
Wayne Dyer
#15. Be a good listener ... It makes the person who's speaking to you feel loved,cared for and worthy of being heard.
Wayne Dyer
#16. When you face a 'performance' that might provoke the 'I'm scared' response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It's more fun than 'Dancing with the Stars!'
Wayne Dyer
#17. Send out anger and impatience, and that's what you'll get. Send out love, and you'll get back love.
Wayne Dyer
#18. There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.
Wayne Dyer
#19. It's probably more fulfilling for me to be offering what I offer than it is for the people who receive it.
Wayne Dyer
#20. If you think peaceful thoughts, you'll feel peaceful emotions, and that's what you'll bring to every life situation. If you're attached to being right or absolutely need something in order to be at peace or successful, you'll live a life of striving yet never arriving.
Wayne Dyer
#21. There is no past. That's another illusion. Everything that has ever happened to you, to me, to anyone in this world, happened in the present moment. That's all there ever is. So your relationship to life isn't your relationship to your past, it's your relationship to the present moment.
Wayne Dyer
#23. You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It's your call.
Wayne Dyer
#25. 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 W. Dyer
#26. In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.
Wayne W. Dyer
#27. Release your need to feel superior by seeing the unfolding of Spirit in everyone. Don't assess others on the basis of their appearance, achievements, and possessions. It's an old saw, but nonetheless true: We are all equal in the eyes of God.
Wayne W. Dyer
#28. Well, your whole life is like a checkerboard and there's a sense that you get, especially looking back on it, that you begin to realize and gain awareness that there's something else moving all of these pieces around in your life, and that was really true for me right from the very beginning.
Wayne Dyer
#29. Put All of your Energy & Attention into Visualizing ... It's then that Doors Begin to Open for You
Wayne Dyer
#30. I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne Dyer
#31. You can never plan anything, you're never guaranteed anything. As long as I'm getting the work and it's quality then I'm happy. But you never know.
Danny Dyer
#32. One of the reasons most people are not good at solving problems and manifesting or attracting into their life what they want is because their thoughts are always on what's wrong and on what's missing and on the problem.
Wayne Dyer
#33. What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what's missing, then what's missing, by definition, will have to expand.
Wayne Dyer
#34. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.
Wayne W. Dyer
#35. I've got quite a big fan base, and people like to see you do the same thing - that's why you get offered the same roles.
Danny Dyer
#36. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving and that's your own self. - ALDOUS HUXLEY
Wayne W. Dyer
#37. Vores's settings fit Torgove's voice like a knife's sheath; they are alert to the harmony of every poem and to every shift of tonality within.
Richard Dyer
#38. When I was young, my brother David and I were farmed off to foster homes, and I spent time in orphanages. My father abandoned us. Here's the most important person in my life, and I never met him.
Wayne Dyer
#39. I think Khalil Gibran stated it perfectly in The Prophet: Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.
Wayne W. Dyer
#40. An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.
Wayne Dyer
#41. Writing is like anything else - the more you do it, the better you get at it, the easier it comes, and the less concerned you'll be about what's going to happen to it, where it's going, what it sounds like, whether it's right.
Wayne Dyer
#43. As the most religious country of the 18 surveyed, the U.S. also comes in with the highest rates for teen pregnancy and for gonorrhea and syphilis.
Gwynne Dyer
#44. Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
Wayne Dyer
#45. I love the sea's sounds and the way it reflects the sky. The colours that shimmer across its surface are unbelievable. This, combined with the colour of the water over white sand, surprises me every time.
John Dyer
#46. Trust and value your own divinity as well as your connection to nature. Seeing God's work everywhere will be your reward.
Wayne Dyer
#47. Appreciate everything and everyone. Look upon every experience you've ever had, and everyone who's ever played any role in your life, as having been sent to you for your benefit. In this universe, which was created by a divine, organizing intelligence, there are simply no accidents.
Wayne Dyer
#48. The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony ... it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun.
Richard Dyer
#49. 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.
Wayne Dyer
#51. The words I AM are your sacred identification as God- your highest self. Take care how you use this terms because saying anything after I AM that's incongruent with God is really taking the Lord's name in vain!
Wayne W. Dyer
#52. Tapping into the essence of originating Spirit, emulating the attributes of the creative force of intention, and manifesting into your life anything that you desire that's consistent with the universal mind ...
Wayne Dyer
#53. Everyone's a little crazy. Some people just hide it better than others.
Michelle Hodkin
#54. Even if your Ego Doesn't Grasp it, this is the Truth: Everything is on Time Under Heaven's Net
Wayne Dyer
#55. 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 W. Dyer
#56. I want to stress, this is the experience-growing up in a working-class family-that defined me and continues to define me. It's the core of my being. And it explains, incidentally, a good deal about my love of America.
Geoff Dyer
#57. Give thanks for everything that you are and everything that you have - that's the first step toward discarding a scarcity mentality.
Wayne W. Dyer
#58. There's nothing that feels better than to do something nice for somebody. I mean nothing feels better.
Wayne Dyer
#59. As the father of eight children, I'm quite convinced that each individual arrives here with their own unique personality. We are intended here from an invisible held of infinite potentiality. That which has no form, has no boundaries - it's the I that's in the ever-changing body.
Wayne Dyer
#60. I planted a kamikaze kiss on Jamie's cheek.
"FUCK," he shouted, wiping it off. "What if you killed me!" He threw a Skittle at my face. It hit my forehead.
"Ow!"
"Taste the rainbow bitch.
Michelle Hodkin
#61. What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.
Wayne Dyer
#62. Writing is challenging work because it's so easy to get consumed with how it's going, what's going to happen to it, who's going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.
Wayne Dyer
#63. I always thought high school was supposed to be a time for finding yourself, but I guess that's only if you fit into the mold people have made for you.
Renee Dyer
#64. 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.
Wayne W. Dyer
#65. But if you put your thoughts on what's on its way, then you'll start looking for every little clue, and every person walking into your life becomes someone who is a messenger or a deliverer of something that is going to help you deliver what you have an intention about.
Wayne Dyer
#66. If what you want to do is make artwork for bands, you have to love doing it because there is almost no money in it. In order to start doing it, you just have to put yourself out there, work for bands you love and for as little as possible to start, if not free, that's what I did for years.
John Dyer Baizley
#67. I didn't work hard for success. I worked hard because that's what is in me. I showed up in this world somehow knowing that you have to work hard. You can't just have a thought. You have to follow the thought through.
Wayne Dyer
#68. We believe that God is like a giant vending machine in the sky. We put in our requests in the form of prayers, and then the vending machine dispenses these prayers based upon how well we've followed the rules that someone else has told us are God's rules.
Wayne Dyer
#69. When you're at peace, there's no counterfeit freedom.
Wayne Dyer
#70. If there's a takeaway from working here, it's an understand that, as bioorganisms, we are a walking time bomb programed for cellular self-destruction. Not if, when.
Laurie Nadel
#71. It's only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.
Wayne Dyer
#72. There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.
Wayne Dyer
#73. Let's go on a road trip and like it, not dread it! There are no barriers, there is no fear.
Wayne W. Dyer
#74. In God's eyes, no one on this planet is any better than you.
Wayne Dyer
#75. 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
#76. 90% of people are in jobs they hate and are bitter about their lives and scratching about for money. That's my worst nightmare.
Danny Dyer
#77. If you want to create something that's worth doing you have to self-edit from the get-go. You really must be careful and selective with whom you work, you must constantly ask yourself the hard questions about your art, and you must set a nearly unattainable standard for yourself.
John Dyer Baizley
#78. Names?' the receptionist asked us.
"Jesus," Jamie answered.
"Mary," said Stella.
"Satan," I said as I walked past her and pushed open the door to Ira Ginsberg's office.
Michelle Hodkin
#79. I could think back to my encounters with rules and regulations that didn't seem to make much sense to me, and have empathy for my children's frustrations. I understood as a very young boy that to blindly follow rules just because they're rules is to lose control over your whole life.
Wayne W. Dyer
#80. Punk rock and metal has always been a home to me, it's where I cut my teeth; and those are the friends that I have, and the bands that I love.
John Dyer Baizley
#81. I don't hear peeing," Jamie said mockingly.
"Eat me," I muttered.
"What's that?"
"Leave me," I said louder.
Michelle Hodkin
#82. When I was really young, I gravitated towards the visual arts first. I feel that's what comes most naturally to me. I've always had an immediate proclivity towards making visual art and I was a really tactile kid.
John Dyer Baizley
#83. When we meditate, we are really trying to go beyond the mind. What I have found is that if I can get totally and completely into the moment, then the mind disappears. And as the mind disappears, that's when God appears.
Wayne Dyer
#84. The greatest gift you were ever given is your imagination. Within it is the capacity to have all your wishes fulfilled. Look around you.
Everything that you can experience with your senses was once in someone's imagination.
Wayne W. Dyer
#85. Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
Wayne Dyer
#86. A good man is but a bad man's teacher, and a bad man is but a good man's job.
Wayne W. Dyer
#87. There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable
Wayne Dyer
#88. It's quite a trick to use three instruments to tell the story of two people, but Vores carried it off; three, for once, is not a crowd. Each member of the trio gets important solos, but there is also a real ensemble character.
Richard Dyer
#89. I focus on what's really important in life. Quality rather than appearance...ethics rather than rules...integrity rather than domination...knowledge rather than achievement...serenity rather than acquisitions.
Wayne Dyer
#90. You who seek God, apart, apart The thing you seek, thou art, thou art. If you want to seek the Beloved's face. Polish the mirror, gaze into that space. These words were written by Rumi as a tribute for his master guru Shams of Tabriz.
Wayne W. Dyer
#91. If you think about shortages, you're going to attract more shortage! If you think about what's missing, you're going to attract more of what's missing in your life.
Wayne Dyer
#92. It's through giving that we receive; it's through acts of kindness directed toward others that our immune systems are strengthened and even our serotonin levels increased!
Wayne W. Dyer
#93. A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don't understand why it's the government's responsibility.
Wayne Dyer
#94. When you trace a particle back to its origins, you find that it's nothing but pure energy. All of us come from this energy field.
Wayne Dyer
#95. Whenever anyone suggested that she looked as if she'd been dragged through a hedge backwards, she used to groan loudly and ram in a few more pins until her head was a complete porcupine's back of hairpins!
Elinor M. Brent-Dyer
#96. Be in a state of gratitude for everything that shows up in your life. Be thankful for the storms as well as the smooth sailing. What is the lesson or gift in what you are experiencing right now? Find your joy not in what's missing in your life but in how you can serve.
Wayne Dyer
#97. The moment is all there is now. All there is is now. That's what God is, too. God is only now.
Wayne Dyer
#98. I tend to over extend myself without really thinking throughthe realities of completing so many projects in a year, which generally means I'm going to be a little bit behind. I suppose that's the nature of the beast.
John Dyer Baizley
#99. You'll love Philadelphia," she said. "But watch out for the ladies who are putting on your shin-dig. There's a romance writing group near here in Erie, and let me just say - we've been called out to a few of their parties. Some of those chicks are decently hard-core.
K.C. Dyer
