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Love Quote by Wayne Dyer

"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life"

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The line sells abundance as something less earned than unlocked, a shift in mindset rather than a shift in material conditions. Coming from Wayne Dyer - a psychologist who became one of self-help's most influential spiritual-leaning voices - it’s calibrated to feel both therapeutic and aspirational. "Cornerstone" is doing heavy rhetorical work: it frames love (as in vocation, calling, daily activity) not as a luxury you get after stability, but as the structural base that makes stability possible. That’s a reversal of the usual bargain modern life offers: grind first, fulfillment later.

The subtext is quietly anti-institutional. If abundance begins with "doing what you love", then bosses, markets, credentials, and even luck become secondary characters. You don’t need permission; you need alignment. That’s classic Dyer: internal authority over external validation, psychology braided with a near-metaphysical confidence that intention reorganizes reality.

Context matters because Dyer’s era of popularity tracked with late-20th-century American individualism and the booming self-improvement industry, where emotional vocabulary ("love", "abundance") replaced older moral language (duty, sacrifice). The quote functions like a gentle piece of consumer-friendly resistance to burnout culture, but it also risks sounding like a wellness version of meritocracy: if you’re not "abundant", maybe you didn’t love hard enough. Its persuasive power comes from that tension. It comforts by implying control, and it seduces by redefining wealth as a feeling - a psychological reframing that can be liberating, or conveniently unfalsifiable.

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TopicMotivational
Source
Verified source: Everyday Wisdom (Wayne Dyer, 2005)ISBN: 9781401905057
Text match: 95.00%   Provider: Cross-Reference
Evidence:
The use of mental imagery is one of the strongest and most effective strategies for making something happen for you. Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. (null). This exact sentence appears in a digitized text of Wayne W. Dyer material associated with ISBN 1401905056 / 9781401905057 (“Everyday Wisdom”, Hay House, 2005). The Open Library record confirms the book’s bibliographic metadata (title/year/publisher/ISBN). However, I could not verify an official page number from a publisher-controlled preview in the time available; the quote is visible in an online scan/transcription, which is why confidence is medium rather than high. The earliest primary-source publication I could directly connect to this exact wording is the 2005 Hay House book edition.
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Double Your Income Doing What You Love (Raymond Aaron, Sue Lacher, 2011) compilation95.0%
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Dyer, Wayne. (2026, February 18). Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/doing-what-you-love-is-the-cornerstone-of-having-2303/

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"Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life." FixQuotes, 18 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/doing-what-you-love-is-the-cornerstone-of-having-2303/. Accessed 21 Feb. 2026.

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Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer (March 10, 1940 - August 29, 2015) was a Psychologist from USA.

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