Wayne Dyer Quotes
The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
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I love my wife, I love my kids.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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It just seems like the most fun thing in the world. I've never met people who have kids who haven't looked me in the eye and been like, 'It's the greatest thing that's ever happened.'
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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I can knit quite well. I make really long scarves.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I feel a physical happiness when spring is coming.
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I'm all for being in love and whenever I like someone, I end up pretty much completely smitten.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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In conclusion we may say, in view of the confirmation that our study has given of the parallelism between individual and racial thought of the Self, that in the history of psychology we discern the great profile which the race has drawn on the pages of time.
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We do not fully understand the consequences of rising populations and increasing energy consumption on the interwoven fabric of atmosphere, water, land and life.
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The ego is only an illusion, but a very influential one. Letting the ego-illusion become your identity can prevent you from knowing your true self. Ego, the false idea of believing that you are what you have or what you do, is a backwards way of assessing and living life.
