Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Wayne Dyer, fully Wayne Walter Dyer

American Psychotherapist, Author, Motivational and Self-Help Speaker

"Just getting started generates an energy and excitement that helps push you forward."

"Just know that you have the power to weather anything."

"Keep a corner of your mind focused exclusively on your images of prosperity."

"It takes not one drop of sweat to put off doing anything."

"It's never crowded along the extra mile"

"It's an old concept, but it is nonetheless true; we are all equal in the eyes of God."

"It's not what is available or unavailable that determines your level of success and happiness; it's what you convince yourself it true."

"Judgments prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances."

"It's never too late to have a happy childhood."

"Just as chemicals do not solve problems for children, the same is true for you."

"Know that success and inner peace are your birthright; that you are a child of God and as such that you're entitled to a life filled with joy, love and happiness."

"Keep one little corner of your mind open to miracle making."

"Keep your eyes open for the thoughts and ideas that will inspire and empower you."

"Know that your life has a purpose."

"Know that no one is capable of making you upset without your consent."

"Learn to be comfortable with the concept of infinity, and see yourself as an infinite being."

"Know that you do not have to understand."

"Learn to act as if the life you visualize were already here."

"Life is a continuing series of experiences, rather than one single experience."

"Life is never boring but some people choose to be bored. The concept of boredom entails an inability to use up present moments in a personally fulfilling way. Boredom is a choice; something you visit upon yourself, and it is another of those self-defeating items that you can eliminate from your life."

"Listen to your own heart concerning the path you wish to travel. Even if your entire life training has been in one direction, if it is not what you feel now, then begin the adventure of exploring a less-traveled road."

"Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules."

"Live your life through your own accomplishments and enjoy those of your children."

"Living as if one is already prosperous is to be a generous person."

"Live in the NOW."

"Living is not a race; it is a journey, something to be enjoyed each day."

"Look into a mirror, make eye contact with yourself and say I love me as many times as possible during the day."

"Love what you do and do what you love. It's as simple as that."

"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."

"Love what you do. Do what you love."

"Loving is for giving, not for taking!"

"Love creates new form, changes matter, and holds the cosmos together beyond time and space. It's in every one of us. It's what God is."

"Love: 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."

"Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world."

"Make an internal commitment to respect yourself and feel worthy of all that the universe has to offer."

"Make peace with silence, and remind yourself that it is in this space that you'll come to remember your spirit. When you're able to transcend an aversion to silence, you'll also transcend many other miseries. And it is in this silence that the remembrance of God will be activated."

"Loving relationships work because there is no work."

"Make sure to praise your children at every opportunity."

"Make yourself available for success, and know and trust in an invisible force that's all-providing."

"Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing."

"Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you."

"Money – like health, love, happiness and all forms of miraculous happenings that you want to create for yourself – is the result of your living purposefully. It is not a goal unto itself. If you chase it, it will always elude you."

"Most people are nicer to total strangers than they are to their loved ones and to themselves."

"Most people are searching for happiness. They're looking for it. They're trying to find it in someone or something outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something that you are, and it comes from the way you think."

"Most people search for happiness outside of themselves. That's a fundamental mistake. Happiness is something you ARE, and it comes from the way you think."

"Motivation is when you get hold of an idea ... inspiration is the reverse - when an idea gets hold of you."

"My thoughts have always created my world."

"Needing approval is tantamount to saying, ‘Your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself.’"

"Never eat by anyone else's timetable. Rid yourself of thoughts like, "It's supper time, I guess I should eat." Consult your body. Is it hungry?"

"My free will is a paradoxical partner of the power of intention."