Wayne Dyer Quotes

If someone decides they're not going to be happy, it's not your problem. You don't have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

Do not allow negative feelings and emotions to control your mind. Emotional harm does not come from others; it is conceived and developed within ourselves.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

It is you who are choosing, in any moment, to be happy or choosing to be sad, or choosing to be angry, or forgiving, or enlightened, or whatever. You are choosing.

I don't mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that's how it comes out.

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued.

I don't have the feeling of being motivated by anger, revenge or frustration.

Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

I don't want to be the angry guy.

I don't know if I ever really get mad in real life.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you're doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatred, the continuance of hatred turns malice.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity.

I don't feel sorry for myself.

I think feeling bitter or angry is really useless.

We can't determine our emotions, but we can choose our attitudes and actions.

I find myself bitter, defensive, and more misanthropic than I care to admit.

I started realizing how the condition of our hearts affects the way we see. If your heart is full of bitterness, anger, and resentment, you're going to look at this world as a very evil place.

No one can make you feel anything you don't already feel.

Whether you are happy or miserable is completely a choice.

One thing I don't believe I am at all is bitter.

Often, we feel helpless in lots of situations in our lives. The way anger gets a grip on us is it seems to be a way to extricate ourselves from helplessness.