Wayne Dyer

1940–2015 · American self-help author & motivational speaker

Wayne W. Dyer was an American self-help author and speaker whose 1976 bestseller Your Erroneous Zones made him a household name in the personal-development world. Because his upbeat, aphoristic style is endlessly quotable, feel-good lines are routinely pinned on him — but this particular proverb was circulating for decades before he ever used a paraphrase of it, and he never coined the popular wording.

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“This is your life, not a dress rehearsal”

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Not actually Wayne Dyer

Often misattributed to Wayne Dyer

Famous lines widely pinned on Wayne Dyer that we’ve traced to someone else.

“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you were?”

actually Rev. Clarence H. Wilson

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Commonly pinned on Wayne Dyer — under review

2 lines flagged as pinned on Wayne Dyer and queued for a full source trace — not yet verified.

“Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.”

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“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”

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