Wayne Walter Dyer was a popular American self-help advocate, author and lecturer. His 1976 book Your Erroneous Zones has sold over 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling books of all time. It is said to have "[brought] humanistic ideas to the masses".
He received his D.Ed. degree in counseling from Wayne State University. He was a guidance counselor in Detroit at the high school level and a professor of counselor education at St. John's University in New York.
He first pursued an academic career, publishing in journals and running a successful private therapy practice, but his lectures at St. John's, which focused on positive thinking and motivational speaking techniques, attracted students beyond those enrolled. A literary agent persuaded Dyer to package his ideas in book form, resulting in Your Erroneous Zones; although initial sales were thin, Dyer quit his teaching job and began a publicity tour of the United States, doggedly pursuing bookstore appearances and media interviews ("out of the back of his station wagon", according to Michael Korda, making the best-seller lists "before book publishers even noticed what was happening"
“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.”
“Everything I need now is here”
“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”
“When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”
“A belief system is nothing more than a thought you've thought over and over again.”
“When you're at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”
“What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
“If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”
“Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”
“There is one grand lie - that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”
“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”
“Once you believe in yourself and see your soul as divine and precious, you'll automatically be converted to a being who can create miracles.”
“Love what you do; Do what you love.”
“You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”
“You are what you choose to be today. Not what you've chosen to be before.”
“As You Think, So Shall You Be.”
“Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.”
“You'll see it when you believe it.”
“You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.”
“You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
“The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.”
“Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
“Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
“I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
“We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.”
“What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
“When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.”
“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. I'm going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
“You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
“I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not.”
“The purpose of dancing isn't to end up at a particular spot on the floor. The purpose of dancing and of life is to enjoy every moment and every step, regardless of where you are when the music ends.”
“loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.”
“Don't "pole-vault over mouse truds" - by the time you've discussed the many options available to you, the problem itself could have been long behind you had you simply disposed of those rodent droppings with a simple tissue and dumped them into the garbage!”
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
“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.”
“Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
“The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.”
“Conflict cannot survive without your participation”
“Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
“Embrace silence since meditation is the only way to truly come to know your Source.”
“Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
“A mind at peace a mind centered and not focused on harming others is stronger than any physical force in the universe.”
“When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
“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.”
“Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”
“No one knows enough to be a pessimist”
“When the choice is to be right or to be kind, always make the choice that brings peace”
“You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”
“Friends are God's way of apologizing for your family.”