Wayne Dyer Quotes

I am subject to very powerful lows. When you have highs, you have terrible lows. When you pinpoint that you are responsible for everything that happens to you, it is very frightening.

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I realised that to compare your insides with other people's outsides leads to unhappiness.

It's when I compare myself to what other people are able to do that I run into trouble. It is a bummer. I just constantly try to put things into perspective.

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

Obviously, circumstances alone do not make us happy or unhappy. It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings. Jesus said that the kingdom of heaven is within you. That is where the kingdom of hell is, too.

A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is.

Our proper bliss depends on what we blame.

Happy people build their inner world; unhappy people blame their outer world.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

Perhaps not being very self-aware in the past masked depression. I think I was confused. I think I was immature. I think I probably was quite depressed.

Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me.

Guilt is feeling bad about what you have done; shame is feeling bad about who you are - all it is, is muddling up things you have done with who you are.

Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.

How we feel about ourselves as we read the newspaper, set the table, wash the dishes, recycle the trash and wash our clothes... is essential to our overall happiness and well-being.

Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise.

When you blame others, you give up your power to change.

It is almost impossible for anyone, even the most ineffective among us, to continue to choose misery after becoming aware that it is a choice.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

Self-talk, for me, has been the biggest thing in my life. A lot of us have a dialogue that is crap. It's a crappy dialogue. We live in a world right now that is very external. Everything is very on the surface. Superficial. Everything. And what we're telling ourselves is what we see on TV.

I'm a dramatic, depressive person.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

Being down makes you think who you are.

You're the only one that's in control of your emotions; you're the only one that's inside of you at all times. So control you however you want to. If you're not happy, that's your fault.

If you're unhappy, you can't make anything.