Wayne Dyer Quotes
The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
Quotes to Explore
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I applaud anyone who wants to take on the load that comes with being President of the United States. You really have to love your country to place yourself in that position.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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It is vital that Iraq and the United States together send the clearest possible signal that those who commit acts of violence against American military forces and American civilians will not be rewarded with amnesty.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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My mother taught me to drive using the 'Detroit Method,' where speed limits and traffic lights are taken as cute suggestions.
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We have an idea that the man should help pay for the child. But we don't have a law that says a man has to support any woman he gets pregnant. Why is that? Because she doesn't have the baby yet. But if we're going to say it's a human being, then he should be supporting her during pregnancy.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
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Sometimes I worked with just a background of a rock or a tree or black velvet, and just had to imagine the whole thing.
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I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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Never take your obedience as the reason God blesses you; obedience is the outcome of being rightly related to God.
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I tend to process stuff by making jokes about it. It's something that makes me annoying to be around in times of real crisis.
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One of the side-effects of having your work appear in a public forum such as this is that people often email me asking for advice on how to break into writing, presumably figuring that if a drooling gum-brain like me can scrape a living witlessly pawing at a keyboard, there's hope for anyone.
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Almost everyone stops being an artist. Most artists don't become artists. But that's another discussion. What it takes to be an artist.
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Hate's a growing thing like anything else. It's the inevitable outcome of forcing ideas onto life, of forcing one's deepest instincts; our deepest feelings we force according to certain ideas.
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The essential lesson I've learned in life is to just be yourself. Treasure the magnificent being that you are and recognize first and foremost you're not here as a human being only. You're a spiritual being having a human experience.
