I have observed that society in general always seems to honor its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Interpretation
Society tends to celebrate those who conform to norms while often ignoring those who challenge them until after their death.
The quote by Wayne Dyer highlights a paradox within societal values, where individuals who conform to accepted norms and behaviors are often praised and honored in life, while those who challenge the status quoβreferred to as 'troublemakers'βmay not receive recognition until they have passed away. This observation points to the way society may resist change and valuing conformity over innovation, suggesting a deeper commentary on the nature of acceptance and legacy.
In practice
In a speech about innovation, one might use this quote to emphasize the need to embrace unconventional thinkers.
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.
but what should we do when the highborn and wealthy take to crime? Indeed, if a poor man will spend a year in prison for stealing out of hunger, how high would the gallows need to be to hang the rich man who breaks the law out of greed?
A man who moralizes is a hypocrite, and a woman who does so is invariably plain.
The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with on the cheapest terms to anyone who will take it of me
Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets.
The cemetery is an open space among the ruins, covered in winter with violets and daisies. It might make one in love with death, to think that one should be buried in so sweet a place.
You tell me: 'Life is hard to bear.' But if it were otherwise why should ou have your pride in the morning nad your resignation in the evening?
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.