Wayne W. Dyer was an American self-help author, philosopher, and motivational speaker. Born in Detroit, Michigan, he spent his childhood in orphanages and foster homes. He earned a doctorate in counseling and became a guidance counselor and professor. His first book, “Your Erroneous Zones,” became a bestseller, launching his career. Dyer wrote over 40 books, including 21 New York Times bestsellers, and created numerous audio and video programs. He promoted themes like motivation, self-actualization, and spirituality, and was a frequent guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Dyer passed away on August 29, 2015, at the age of 75, leaving behind a legacy of inspiring millions worldwide.

Wayne W. Dyer Quotes

1. “The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of the state of your mind.”
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2. “Love what you do; Do what you love.”
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3. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
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4. “With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose.”
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5. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.”
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6. “Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.”
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7. “You’ll see it when you believe it.”
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8. “With God, all things are possible.”
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9. “It’s never crowded along the extra mile.”
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10. “When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
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11. “You don’t need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be.”
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12. “Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find.”
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13. “Begin with the end in mind. Start with the end outcome and work backwards to make your dream possible.”
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14. “When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose to be kind.”
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15. “The law of attraction is this: You don’t attract what you want. You attract what you are.”
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16. “Attitude is everything, so pick a good one.”
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17. “I have absolutley no limits on what I intent to create.”
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18. “You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.”
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19. “Banish doubt. When doubt is banished, abundance flourishes and anything is possible.”
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20. “No one can create negativity or stress within you. Only you can do that by virtue of how you process your world.”
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21. “Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.”
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22. “Heaven is a state of mind, not a location.”
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23. “You are not stuck where you are unless you decide to be.”
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24. “I am realistic – I expect miracles.”
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25. “You are an infinite spiritual being having a temporary human experience.”
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26. “As You Think, So Shall You Be.”
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27. “Whatever the question, love is the answer.”
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28. “Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.”
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29. “Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
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30. “If you believe it will work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you believe it won’t you will see obstacles.”
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31. “I am thankful to all those who said no. It’s because of them, I did it myself.”
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32. “The more you see yourself as what you’d like to become, and act as if what you want is already there, the more you’ll activate those dormant forces that will collaborate to transform your dream into your reality.”
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33. “You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.”
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34. “Never underestimate your power to change yourself; never overestimate your power to change others.”
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35. “Everything I need now is here.”
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36. “A belief system is nothing more than a thought you’ve thought over and over again.”
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37. “You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.”
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38. “Good morning, this is God. I will be handling all of your problems today. I will not need your help, so have a miraculous day.”
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39. “You are what you choose to be today. Not what you’ve chosen to be before.”
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40. “Conflict cannot survive without your participation.”
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41. “I would rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I’m not. ”
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42. “Everything you do is based on the choices you make. It’s not your parents, your past relationships, your job, the economy, the weather, an argument or your age that is to blame. You and only you are responsible for every decision and choice you make. Period.”
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43. “You cannot fail, you can only produce results.”
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44. “Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.”
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45. “Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy.”
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46. “You have everything you need for complete peace and total happiness right now.”
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47. “A non-doer is very often a critic – that is, someone who sits back and watches doers, and then waxes philosophically about how the doers are doing. It’s easy to be a critic, but being a doer requires effort, risk, and change.”
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48. “Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.”
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49. “There is one grand lie – that we are limited. The only limits we have are the limits we believe.”
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50. “No one knows enough to be a pessimist.”
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51. “When you’re at peace with yourself and love your self, it is virtually impossible to do things to yourself that are destructive.”
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52. “How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.”
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53. “Let the world know why you’re here, and do it with passion.”
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54. “Each experience in your life was absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.”
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55. “All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, it will not change you.”
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56. “If you knew who walked beside you at all times, on the path that you have chosen, you could never experience fear or doubt again.”
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57. “What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.”
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58. “Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.”
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59. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”
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60. “If you meet someone whose soul is not aligned with yours, send them love and move along.”
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61. “The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.”
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62. “When you abandon making choices, you enter the vast world of excuses.”
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63. “Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character.”
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64. “Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.”
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65. “There is no stress in the world, only people thinking stressful thoughts.”
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66. “There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.”
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67. “Beautiful thoughts, build a beautiful soul.”
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68. “Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.”
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69. “When you are able to shift your inner awareness to how you can serve others, and when you make this the central focus of your life, you will then be in a position to know true miracles in your progress toward prosperity.”
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70. “We are divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.”
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71. “Enjoying life is far superior to being graded on your performance in life.”
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72. “Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.”
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73. “We are not human beings in search of a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings emersed in a human experience.”
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74. “See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See.”
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75. “Our intentions create our reality.”
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76. “Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.”
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77. “The greatest gift that you were ever given was the gift of your imagination.”
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78. “Acceptance means no complaining, and happiness means no complaining about the things over which you can do nothing.”
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79. “Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.”
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80. “If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.”
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81. “Discontinue deciding what anyone else should or shouldn’t be doing.”
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82. “Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.”
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83. “What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.”
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84. “Within you is the divine capacity to manifest and attract all you desire.”
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85. “You are in a partnership with all other human beings, not a contest to be judged better than some and worse than others.”
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86. “Fear knocked at the door. Love answered and no one was there.”
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87. “Look for the blessing in all situations.”
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88. “It is better to be kind than right.”
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89. “It is easy to love people when they smell good, but sometimes they slip into the manure of life and smell awful. You must love them just as much when they smell foul.”
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90. “Your teacher might be a child who takes you by the hand and asks you a question that you hadn’t considered before, and your answer to the child is your answer to yourself.”
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91. “You create your thoughts, your thoughts create your intentions, and your intentions create your reality.”
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92. “The antidote to fear is faith.”
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93. “The last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.”
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94. “Live as if your prayers are to be answered.”
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95. “Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.”
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96. “Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments.”
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97. “You are a Divine creation, a Being of Light who showed up here as a human being at the exact moment you were supposed to. You are the Beloved, a miracle, a part of the eternal perfection.”
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98. “The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.”
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99. “Authentic freedom is actually the freedom of knowing who you are, why you are here, your purpose in life and where you are going when you leave here.”
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100. “Healthy habits are learned in the same way as unhealthy ones – through practice.”
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101. “Infinite patience produces immediate results.”
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102. “Know that everything will happen at just the right time, at just the right place, with just the right people.”
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103. “Friends are God’s way of apologizing for your family.”
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104. “Too often we jump to the conclusion that something is impossible simply because we cannot see the solution. No one knows enough to be a pessimist.”
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105. “The only difference between a flower and a weed is judgement.”
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106. “Progress and growth are impossible if you always do things the way you’ve always done things.”
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107. “Simply put, you believer that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.”
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108. “Remind yourself that you cannot fail at being yourself.”
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109. “When you trust in yourself, you are trusting in the same wisdom that created you. When you fail to trust in yourself, when you fail to love yourself, you are denying your own Divinity, and therefore attracting the opposite of what The Source is.”
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110. “Don’t die with your music still in you.”
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111. “I am worthy of attracting unlimited abundance and prosperity into my life, regardless of what life experiences have gone before me. I only reinforce and contemplate images that are in harmony with this vision.”
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112. “We expand what we focus on.”
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113. “We can only give away to others what we have inside ourselves.”
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114. “What you think about expands. If your thoughts are centered on what’s missing, then what’s missing, by definition, will have to expand.”
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115. “If prayer is you talking to God, then intuition is God talking to you.”
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116. “Don’t pole-vault over mouse turds.”
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117. “You can either be a Host to God, or a Hostage to your ego!”
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118. “You become what you think about all day long and those days eventually become your lifetime.”
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119. “There are no justified resentments.”
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120. “You get what you think about whether you want it or not.”
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121. “When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out – because that’s what’s inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.”
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122. “The power of intention manifests as an expression of expanding creativity, kindness, love, and beauty.”
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123. “Remember that your natural state is joy.”
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124. “Attachment to being right creates suffering. When you have a choice to be right, or to be kind, choose kind and watch your suffering disappear.”
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125. “Peace can be a lens through which you see the world. Be it. Live it. Radiate it out. Peace is an inside job.”
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126. “As I unclutter my life, I free myself to answer the callings of my soul.”
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127. “Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.”
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128. “When you’re inspired you attract abundance.”
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129. “It’s only a thought and a thought can be changed. Choose good ones.”
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130. “I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.”
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131. “The Universe provides abundantly when you’re in a state of gratefulness.”
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132. “Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.”
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133. “You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.”
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134. “There are only two emotions – Fear and Love. Go with Love.”
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135. “Stop giving energy to the things you don’t want.”
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136. “The secret to changing your life is in your intentions. Wishing, hoping and goal setting cannot accomplish change without intention. What is needed is a shift from the inert energy of wanting to the active energy of doing and intention.”
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137. “When you live on a round planet, there’s no choosing sides.”
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138. “We are not a body with a soul, but a soul with a body. When the body dies the soul returns to the source.”
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139. “Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.”
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140. “Remember this maxim: When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. The way you perceive things is an extremely powerful tool that will allow you to fully bring the power of intention into your life.”
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141. “By surrendering, you create an energy field of receptivity for the solution to appear.”
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142. “All forgiveness is self forgiveness.”
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143. “If all you do is follow the herd, you’ll just be stepping in poop all day.”
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144. “Enlightenment is the “quiet acceptance of what is”. I believe the truly enlightened beings are those who refuse to allow themselves to be distressed over things that simply are the way they are.”
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145. “The power of intention is the power to manifest, to create, to live a life of unlimited abundance, and to attract into your life the right people at the right moments.”
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146. “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
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147. “Without Exception, Begin Every Day of your Life with Gratitude.”
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148. “You can’t discover light, by analyzing the dark.”
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149. “If you are not generous when it’s difficult, you will not be generous when it’s easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.”
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150. “There is a universal intelligence that we call God or Soul or Spirit or Consciousness, and it is everywhere and in all things.”
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