From an article in the New York Times…
“I grew up in the east side of Detroit in an area where there was very little, except for a lot of scarcity, poverty and hunger,” he said in a 2009 interview with Success magazine. “But I never woke up saying, ‘I’m an orphan again today, isn’t this terrible? Poor me,’ (…) there were a couple of very affluent neighborhoods nearby, but I never thought for one second that those people had more than I had. It just seemed that they got what they were entitled to, and if I really wanted those things, then I would have them, too.”
“The quality of my life hasn’t changed at all,” he continued. “The quality of my life has always been good because I’ve always made it good. When I was dirt poor as a little kid I can never remember being unhappy.”
Wayne spread his infectious, humorous, positive — “you can take charge of your own thinking and life” — message to tens of millions.
Here are just a few quotes Wayne said that have influenced my life…
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Begin to see yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.
There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
I am a realistic…I expect miracles.
Have a creative artistic day filled with beautiful miracles.