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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Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.
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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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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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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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I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.
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The undisturbed mind is like the calm body water reflecting the brilliance of the moon. Empty the mind and you will realize the undisturbed mind.
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You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.
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Flying dreams mean that you're doing the right thing with your life.
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Sometimes we tend to focus more on the personalities and the conflicts, and it really caricatures the issues.
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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.
