Wayne Dyer Quotes

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

I don't think I could truly value human love until I developed divine love.

According to me, your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: My religion is loving-kindness. I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself-in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

I would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion--and where it isn't, that's where my work lies.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

Grant that I have enough suffering that my heart really opens to the great compassion of this world, that I be given enough so that I don't wall myself off from the world, that it breaks down the heart and the separation and the ego and the fear, and it lets me touch the nectar, the milk of kindness itself, of something greater.

If you want to serve the universe, the obvious place to begin is right where you are. That's where I began. I looked at every situation I came into and wondered, 'What can I do to be of service in this situation?' Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but often there was - a helping hand, a word of cheer, a pleasant smile. Then, after I had given a lot, a most wonderful spiritual receiving began - giving me more to give.

Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?'

Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.

You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe we're all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose... When you connect with that love and that compassion, that's when everything unfolds.

I confess it is beyond our power to awaken the heart, but ordinarily this way does good.

You should think about the world and feel about your heart.

Consciously be sensitive to others, and try to elevate their level of consciousness. Don't do this by being preachy and telling them that they 'should' do this or that. Do it by raising your own level of energy and recognizing what's best in others.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

I, for one, am profoundly grateful to feel the hand of God at work in my life. But at the beginning and end of the day, when my default setting is to show kindness and love to others, I never regret it. And to me, that is what faith is all about.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.