Wayne Dyer Quotes

The price we pay for being ourselves is worth it.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

The greatest fear people have is that of being themselves.

Unhappiness comes when you try to be like everyone else rather than embracing the unique person that you are.

For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!

I believe so many people live what I call that false identity they are living according to other people's expectations, associations, their experiences, the labels in life. And they buy into that.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.

I laughed but before I could agree with the hairdressers that she was crazy, she said, 'What's the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it?' " 'The way I want it?' " 'Yeah. The way you want it. Don't you want it to be something more than what it is?' " 'What'st eh point? I can't change it.' " 'That's the point. If you don't, it will change you and it'll be your fault cause you let it. I let it. And messed up my life.' " 'Mess it up how?' " 'Forgot it.' " 'Forgot?' " 'Forgot it was mine. My life. I just ran up and down the streets wishing I was somebody else.

It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.

Be yourself. The happiest and most successful people are those who feel the most comfortable with themselves.

I find I am constantly being encouraged to pluck out some one aspect of myself and present this as the meaningful whole, eclipsing or denying the other parts of self.

You are constantly invited to be what you are.

I'm just going to live my life and be who I am.

I try to explain to people that the only way to be cool is to be who you truly are, and the only way to live life is to do the things that you want to do and be the person that you want to be no matter who that is or what that is or how you have to do it. That's the only way you can be genuinely happy.

I want to continue to be me and share with people.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

You don't want to spend your life explaining yourself.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

I wanted to do things that I knew were going to be me.

I made it this far eating fruit roll-ups and having soda pop and having fun. I feel like I tried changing that to do like everyone says I should, and I just feel better being me.

I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.

I think everybody needs to find out who they are and who their, like, inner superhero is, or who you like to be. The world would be a better place if everyone was doing what the hell they wanted to do and being who they wanted to be.

In the end, I want to try to be myself.

I just need to be me.

I'm happy about who and what I am - and I can't wait to find out who I'll be tomorrow.