Top 100 Vanzant Quotes
#2. Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.
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#3. Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.
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#4. The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.
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#5. Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.
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#6. It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you.
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#7. For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.
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#8. 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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#9. When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.
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#10. Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.
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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. I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.
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#13. When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.
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#14. One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy.
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#15. What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.
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#16. One of the greatest challenges in creating a joyful, peaceful and abundant life is taking responsibility for what you do and how you do it. As long as you can blame someone else, be angry with someone else, point the finger at someone else, you are not taking responsibility for your life.
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#17. When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.
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#18. Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
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#19. The beloved is one who nurtures you, trusts you, supports you, encourages you, loves you without conditions. That's you.
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#20. Right where you are is where you need to be. Don't fight it! Don't run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see?
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#21. 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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#22. What if forgiving my mother also means forgiving myself?
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#23. All things are lessons that God would have us learn.
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#24. 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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#25. Each of us was born to fulfill a divine purpose. As we open our hearts and minds to a new way of being, the purpose of our lives unfolds organically.
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#26. You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it.
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#27. 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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#28. Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.
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#29. You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!
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#30. I don't think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone's behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.
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#32. Do not be afraid to experience your emotions; they are the path to your soul. Emotions erupt to remind us we are alive, that we are human. And to let us know we are growing. Trust yourself enough to feel what you feel.
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#33. Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.
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#35. Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.
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#36. I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.
Paige VanZant
#38. And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.
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#39. You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.
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#40. My father wanted me to learn self-defense, so I enrolled in the Academy and loved it from the start.
Paige VanZant
#41. If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.
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#42. If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
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#43. Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don't let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.
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#44. When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be.
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#45. It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
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#47. 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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#48. I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
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#49. No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.
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#50. It's just such a blessing that I get to be paid for something that I'm in love with.
Paige VanZant
#51. 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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#52. It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own story
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#53. If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.
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#54. Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.
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#55. Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.
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#56. What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.
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#57. Respect you love one enough to know thay can handle your truth
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#58. You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.
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#59. In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.
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#60. Sharing what you've learned and helping others is a good source of renewal.
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#61. Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.
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#62. Much to my surprise, as I set them free, I was able to forgive myself for the judgments I had made about them. I now hold them in a loving space in my heart and honor them as my ancestors who love me and guide me each day.
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#63. Stop chasing things that are beneath the truth of who you are. Stop holding on to things and people that weigh you down. Stop behaving in ways that don't honor the divinity and nobility within you.
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#64. We think we have to do something to be grateful or something has to be done in order for us to be grateful, when gratitude is a state of being.
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#65. Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.
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#66. In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.
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#67. Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
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#68. From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.
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#69. We see in one another the things we cannot see or accept about
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#70. The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.
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#71. Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.
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#72. All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.
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#73. People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.
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#74. Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.
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#75. The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.
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#76. WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.
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#80. I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.
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#82. Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.
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#83. I am now willing to forgive myself ... for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.
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#84. 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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#85. When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface ... You have to pause.
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#86. 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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#87. I believe that the only thing that will dispel the darkness is for the light to come on. And the lights are coming on. Here, there. People are eating more vegetables, living green, taking in and saving animals. All of that is the light coming on.
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#89. When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.
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#90. Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt ... acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.
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#91. The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me.
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#92. This is probably one of the most difficult challenges any parent could face - learning to love the other parent enough to make the children first.
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#93. The goal of life is not to win. It is to play the game with love. The rules of the game are: have a strong desire to win, believe that you are worthy of winning, have faith that you will win, and, as long as you are alive, never believe that the game is over.
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#94. Dear God, Please untie the nots. All of the can nots, should nots, may nots and have nots. Please erase from my mind the thoughts that I am not good enough.
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#95. We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.
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#96. When you have something to do life will not allow you to ove foward until you do it.
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#97. Any time there is 'un-forgiveness' between people who love each other, there is suffering. Any time people face challenges that they really don't understand ... there is suffering.
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#98. When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
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#99. The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
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#100. Black Girls rock because we have no other choice.
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