Wayne Dyer Quotes

I just don't like to dwell on stuff.

Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.

There's no point in living in an alternate reality.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

I really do believe when you're in a ton of pain, you tend to take it out on other people. If you deal with your stuff, you don't take it out on everybody else.

People tend not to dwell on drama.

If some things don't make me feel good, I stop them. How simple, yet so hard to do.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

They all sort of get mixed up in my head, to be quite honest. They're all dealing with similar things. It's about how you deal with reality, by ignoring it sometimes, reinventing it other times, and that's how you get through it.

People who believe their unquestioned thoughts cannot see what is obvious and directly in front of their faces at all times, because they are invested in what they believe to be true. As long as they live out of an unquestioned mind, they must continue to argue with what they believe is happening rather than the reality of what is really happening.

I think having pointers and having guidance from mentors is very important, but it never actually embodies what you go through. And if something doesn't feel good, why do you repeat it? If you feel good bemoaning an audition for a week, go for it. But if you feel better bemoaning an audition that didn't go very well for 30 minutes because you believe in the craft and the process, then I suggest you do that. And that's what I suggest to myself. The alternative is way too painful and destructive.

Professional opinion is skeptical about anything that doesn't fit in with the version of reality it has been programmed to believe in. The skepticism comes from a lack of understanding and the need to defend the status quo and not from actual knowledge of the subject.

Strange to dream in the right shape and build in the wrong shape, but maybe that is what we do every day, never believing that a dream could tell the truth.

My mother isn't crazy. She simply has a harder time than most reconciling her reality with everyone else's reality.

Schizophrenia is a successful attempt not to adapt to pseudo- social realities.

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad.

Trump has learned how to function in a world in which people now live in very separate realities, where they get their news from Facebook recommendations and believe in a particular set of facts. Others, who live in a different reality, know quite a different set of facts.

The problem is that this speeded-up life and stress in America causes us to cut off our feelings, so we are out of touch with our reality.

If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

I have an investment in not being crazy. I have a real investment in seeing things straight. This runs counter to that investment, so it required giving up an idea of myself, the idea being that I had control.

People try so hard to let go of their negative behaviors and thoughts, and it doesn't work, or it works only for a short time. I didn't let go of my negative thoughts; I questioned them, and then they let go of me, and so did my addictions and depression.

Delusional people tend to believe in what they're doing.