You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.
-- Wayne Dyer
About the Quote
Nearly everything in life is beyond our control: the weather, the economic situation, politics, even people we know. With those things and more outside our control, it's easy to let them dictate how we act and react and think.
If we let the outside dictate our thinking, that's the easy way to lose control of ourselves and to lose our sanity. In the long run, we end up unhealthy, diseased, and miserable.
Stuff happens. It happens all the time, and it happens to everyone. We can go on some tirade or long-winded rant about what happens to us, and while the release of pressure feels good it is only momentary.
We can't change what happens around us, but we can change how we react to what happens around us. We can look on the bright side of things as things happen. We can assess our situations and decide which courses of actions will work best forus. We can even let out a primal scream or have a good long cry-- but then we leave it behind to focus on what's ahead of us.
In computer science there is a term which describes the quote perfectly: GIGI (Garbage In, Garbage Out). More familiar to people is the old saying "You are what you eat."
Some Information about Wayne Dyer
Wayne Walter Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, US on 1940-May-10. He died in Maui, Hawai'i, US on 2015-August-29.
He was a motivational speaker and authori of self-help books. As of 2018, his books had sold over 100 million copies. His first book, Your Erroneous Zones was published in 1976, and it is one of the best-selling books of all time.
Hazel Irene Dyer and Melvin Lyle were his parents, but Wayne Dyer spent his adolescence in an orphanage. He joine dthe United States Navy when he graduated from high school. Afterward he studied counseling at Wayne State University and earned his doctorate degree in Educational Counseling.
Spending childhood in orphanages and foster homes isn't easy on anyone, but Wayne Dyer overcame that adversity to realize his dreams. Although he had his own issues, he found ways to resolve them. That's when he devoted his life to helping others by teaching them to follow in his footsteps to happiness.
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