Wayne Dyer Quotes

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.

The more empathy you have and the more connected you are to society, the better off you'll be.

I give a portion of my time to helping others. It is good for my own health.

The simple truth is that happy people generally don't get sick

Studies of volunteers have shown there is a benefit to performing acts of love for other people. The irony is that it is actually in your best interest to be selfless. The things you do for the benefit of others not only make you feel fulfilled, they increase your chances of living a long and happy life. Remember that an act of love always benefits at least two people.

Giving is a miracle that can transform the heaviest of hearts. Two people, who moments before lived in separate worlds of private concerns, suddenly meet each other over a simple act of sharing. The world expands, a moment of goodness is created, and something new comes into being where before there was nothing... But true giving is not an economic exchange; it is a generative act. It does not subtract from what we have; it multiplies the effect we can have in the world.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

I believe that we all have something to share with someone else that can better someone else's life.

Laugh a lot. It clears the lungs.

I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even think it's as much as what I want for myself. It's more what I want for the people around me. That's what I want.

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves.

The studies indicate that focusing our attention on someone else, takes our mind off of our own problems. We stay healthier and thereby live longer.

We live in a time when science is validating what humans have known throughout the ages: that compassion is not a luxury; it is a necessity for our well-being, resilience, and survival.

Aside from doing everything possible to provide programs for people who are seriously ill, I want to do everything humanly possible to help create a more caring society so that we can begin to counter the painful loneliness and sense of helplessness which has engulfed too many of our people.

We know that gardening is good for you. It is fantastic, all-round exercise. That is easy to see and evaluate. It inculcates high levels of well-being. That is undeniable and needs little measurement.

I think exercise is really important, not just for your physical self, for your body, but for your head.

I don't see anything negative about dance. It is so good for you, mentally and physically, and so for me to promote it is the easiest thing to do.

Making fitness a priority will energize you, make you look and feel better, and help diffuse stress.

You can't focus on yourself. You need to focus on what you're doing for others, and then you can start to heal.

In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy.

That was when I found out that the best way in the world to make yourself feel better when you have hit bottom is to try to get somebody else to feel better. There are certain things in life that are truly worth knowing, and that is one of the big ones.

What we do for others has a direct impact on how we feel about ourselves.

Genuine happiness and compassion go hand in hand.

Cultivating the habit of good deeds will not only affect those around us, it will improve our own emotional well being.