Wayne Dyer Quotes

The art we need is the art of bearing the unbearable.

There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.

We do not know what we can bear until we are put to the test. Many a delicate mother, who thought that she could not survive the death of her children, has lived to bury her husband and the last one of a large family, and in addition to all this has seen her home and last dollar swept away; yet she has had the courage to bear it all and to go on as before. When the need comes, there is a power deep within us that answers the call.

Every time there are losses, there are choices to be made. You choose to live your losses as passages to anger, blame, hatred, depression and resentment, or you choose to let these losses be passages to something new, something wider, and deeper.

I was bullied and picked on because I was so different to everyone else, and I definitely didn't believe or even know I was fabulous back then. But those hard times made me everything I am today. It's all water under the bridge now, but being bullied and going through adversity definitely made me stronger.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.

Things are not as we would like them to be. There is only one way to deal with it, namely to try and be all right oneself.

You're not going to live your life unscathed.

I come from a pretty tough background and I learned a long time ago not to be bothered.

Life is not linear; you have ups and downs. It's how you deal with the troughs that defines you.

I'm not saying that experiencing loss is why I can cope with darker worlds - I'm not saying that for a second - but I think it opens up a side of you in terms of work that wouldn't be as accessible had that stuff not happened.

I can handle pain.

No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.

Just because you're scarred for life doesn't mean you should be scared to live.

Life doesn't stop because something happens to you.

You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.

In my own life, I believe it was an early education in poetical metaphor that helped me to grapple with and make sense of all the difficult and traumatic things that were to come.

My childhood gave me resilience - and there's little that can surprise me in life.

Life delivered me a catastrophe, but I found a richness of soul.

I'm viewed as this weird, crippled character. But you got to take your lumps.

I've had to deal with my tragedies, and how you cope with them is what life's all about. You can choose to let them consume you or choose not to.

I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.