Top 100 Iyanla Vanzant Quotes
#1. We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about
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#2. To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
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#3. What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.
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#4. If you don't like your sister or don't get along with your father, let's find out if you like yourself. Let's not sugarcoat anything about it.
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#5. When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface ... You have to pause.
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#6. God is love. Love is always present, surrounding us; guiding, growing, and teaching us. Even in the midst of total chaos, pain, and dysfunction, love is calling us to a higher experience and expression.
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#8. Today I am devoted to addressing all the little things about me and in my life that I have not mastered!
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#9. We really don't know how to love each other because we haven't really learned to love ourselves. In many instances, not all, it's not malicious. We've just been conditioned to such bad behavior.
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#11. Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.
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#12. Your divine mate already exists. When you get to the place in yourself that is peaceful divine love, your true mate will be revealed.
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#13. The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.
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#14. Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.
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#15. Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.
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#16. If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.
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#18. You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be.
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#19. Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.
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#20. When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she's gonna pay for it!
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#21. Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.
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#22. What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?
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#23. Feelings come and they pass. Whatever we are feeling in any given moment is just a passing experience. Our work is to learn to accept what we feel and to learn to let it pass.
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#24. Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.
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#25. I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.
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#26. Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
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#27. You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.
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#28. It is always so much easier to blame someone else rather than accepting responsibility for your experiences.
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#29. I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.
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#30. Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.
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#31. If you heart had a voice, Beloved, what would it say?
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#34. Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.
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#35. Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.
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#36. Instead of running from what you don't want, walk with commitment toward what you desire. Focus on where you are going rather than being obsessed with where you have been.
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#37. We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.
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#38. As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.
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#39. The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.
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#40. FORGIVENESS ADDRESSES HOW WE THINK AND FEEL ABOUT OTHERS AND OURSELVES AND HOW THOSE THOUGHTS MANIFEST WITHIN OUR LIVES AS ENERGY.
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#41. TRIED SO HARD TO KEEP THEM FROM FAILING THAT I FAILED TO GIVE THEM WHAT THEY NEEDED TO SUCCEED
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#42. When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.
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#43. Tell your story because your story will heal you and it will heal someone else.
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#44. We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'
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#45. I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.
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#46. Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
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#47. Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.
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#49. Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
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#50. I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.
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#51. Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.
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#52. Each day, focus your attention on what you want. Each day, take one step that will bring you closer to it. ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE! The key is to identify it, claim it for yourself, and believe that you are worthy to have it.
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#53. Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.
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#54. I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way that serves other people. That's a high calling and it's a great responsibility.
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#55. What would it take for you to forget all your troubles? Are you willing to simply forget all your troubles today? When you remove your attention from a problem, it gets bored and moves away!
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#56. In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
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#57. You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.
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#58. Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated
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#59. For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.
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#60. You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.
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#61. Trying to prove something to someone is never a valid reason for doing anything.
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#62. Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.
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#63. Your purpose gave birth to you. It has molded and shaped who you are and what you do. Your purpose is the reason you live and breathe. Your purpose guides your heart, hands, and head. It is alive in you. It is there, within, that you must seek to know it and live it.
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#64. I hope that my story, I hope that my life is ... an encouragement for people, especially in Brooklyn. I feel humbled and blessed.
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#66. Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.
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#68. When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.
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#69. What will support any relationship is clear, complete and conscious conversations when upsets or breakdowns occur.
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#70. I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.
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#71. Abundance is a direct reflection of your preparation to live abundantly. People who are ready for abundance keep their heads up, their eyes open and give thanks for everything they get.
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#72. I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.
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#73. Within me so that my divine relationship with all men will be restored. I ask for the will to forgive and move forward in love. I lay down my weapons. I open my heart. I forgive. I let it be! And so it is!
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#74. Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make.
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#75. I'm the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I'm not the same person at all. At all. I've buried a child, I've ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted.
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#76. Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering
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#77. No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.
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#78. When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others
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#79. At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.
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#80. I don't think there's such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.
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#81. When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
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#82. You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.
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#83. Whether or not we know what we are creating or how we are creating it, when things do not turn out the way we desire, our human instincts drive us to look for someone to blame.
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#84. You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?
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#85. Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure
put a period to
those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing ... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
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#86. If you're not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren't really ready to share yourself.
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#87. Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life
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#88. At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.
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#89. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
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#90. If you don't have a vision you're going to be stuck in what you know. And the only thing you know is what you've already seen.
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#91. I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.
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#92. If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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#93. Aggressive, or fine but the timing was just not right.
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#95. Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.
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#96. You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.
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#97. People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you.
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#98. My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.
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#99. Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.
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#100. You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.
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