You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.
Interpretation
Your worth is intrinsic and not dependent on external validation or success.
Wayne Dyer emphasizes that self-worth is inherent and not contingent upon external factors such as approval from others, success, or material wealth. It is a conscious decision to recognize one's own value that defines a person's sense of worth, encouraging individuals to cultivate self-acceptance and inner confidence without relying on outside validation.
In practice
In a motivational speech on self-acceptance, you could use this quote to encourage listeners to value themselves.
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
I think there's a lot of pressure on young people to really be the thing that everyone is telling them that they are, opposed to discovering it for themselves.
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions.
The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.
I am a person who believes in asking questions, in not conforming for the sake of conforming. I am deeply dissatisfied - about so many things, about injustice, about the way the world works - and in some ways, my dissatisfaction drives my storytelling.
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