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.
He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal.
Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.
If you live long enough, sooner or later everybody you know has cancer.
There are souls that are incurable and lost to the rest of society. Deprive them of one means of folly, they will invent ten thousand others. They will create subtler, wilder methods, methods that are absolutely DESPERATE. Nature herself is fundamentally antisocial, it is only by a usurpation of powers that the organized body of society opposes the natural inclination of humanity.
Whenever you hear anyone talking about a cultural or even about a human problem, you should never forget to inquire who the speaker really is. The more general the problem, the more the person will smuggle his or her own personal psychology into the account he or she gives of it.
All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one.
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