Wealth & Money Quote by Wayne Dyer

Dyer’s sentence is built like a conversion story, and that’s the point: it doesn’t argue so much as testify. The first line sketches the classic treadmill of late-capitalist anxiety - “chased,” “never had enough” - a loop where money becomes both target and measuring stick. It’s a psychological diagnosis disguised as a simple before-and-after. “Enough” is the key tell: it’s not a number, it’s a feeling, and Dyer implies the feeling will always recede if your identity is hitched to acquisition.

Then he pivots to “life on purpose,” a phrase with the clean certainty of self-help spirituality. The subtext is agency: prosperity arrives when you stop treating the world like a slot machine and start treating yourself like a source. “Focused on giving of myself” reframes wealth as a byproduct of alignment - values first, outcomes second. Notice the rhetorical sleight of hand: “everything that arrived into my life” makes success sound less like conquest than reception, nudging the listener toward gratitude and away from control. That’s classic Dyer, operating at the seam between psychology and metaphysics.

Context matters. Dyer rose in an era when therapy language migrated into mainstream aspiration culture, offering self-authorship as an antidote to status panic. His “prosperous” is deliberately elastic: it can mean money, yes, but also peace, relationships, health, a life that doesn’t feel like an endless invoice. The line works because it flatters a modern hunger - not just to be rich, but to feel un-needy while living in a system designed to keep you wanting.