Wayne Dyer Quotes

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

I actually feel that the better you know yourself, the more you want to hang out with yourself and enjoy that time to do whatever makes you happy.

One must accept the fact that we have only one companion in this world, a companion who accompanies us from the cradle to the grave - our own self. Get on good terms with that companion - learn to live with yourself.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

If you want to understand yourself, Then do not examine yourself. Just love yourself more sincerely, More soulfully And more self-givingly.

My goal was to be able to be alone without food, sugar, phone, men, TV, anything and to feel O.K. about myself.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

It's very important to enjoy time alone with yourself and just existing, because existence is kind of cool.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I really do feel like I know myself, and I'm so happy to be by myself and I'm so happy to be with other people; I just know myself really, really well, and I think that is an amazing thing. I think a lot of people don't know themselves that well.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The starting point of discovering who you are, your gifts, your talents, your dreams, is being comfortable with yourself. Spend time alone. Write in a journal. Take long walks in the woods.

We all have to find beauty within us, as opposed to just our exterior.

If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

It took me a very long time to be comfortable in my own skin.

Everyone's on their own journey and nothing's going to happen overnight and you're going to have ups and you're going to have downs, but I think that you need to be content with your own journey and find what works for you.