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.
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
Faith is one foot on the ground, one foot in the air, and a queasy feeling in the stomach.
...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is.
The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.
Sometimes I think that it is enough to say that if we don't sit down and shut up once in a while we'll lose our minds even earlier than we had expected. Noise is an imposition on sanity, and we live in very noisy times.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
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