Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

“You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.”

May Matter Seems Happens Moving Pay Situation Minutes Patient Faster Urgent Be Patient Life Patience

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.”

Decided

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“Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.”

Heart Sound Listening Sitting Breaths Blessed Sacred Reminders Sitting Alone

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“Forgiveness is not about the other person or what they did. Forgiveness is for YOU and about YOU.”

Persons Forgiveness

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“It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full.”

Knows Want Firsts Mean Self Whole Care Mines Healthy Take Care Cups Disregard

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“Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.”

Writing May Long Feelings Asks Speak Quiet Paper Breaths Forgiving Intention Finished Heal Pens Holding On Deep Breath Thoughts And Feelings Forgive Yourself Quiet Place

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“Forgive yourself for believing things about yourself that are not true. Forgive yourself for believing that you were anything other than a child of God. Then, after forgiving yourself for believing the things you were told, forgive the people who told you. Forgive them not for what they said or did. Forgive them because they did not know any better.”

People Knows Believe Children Said Forgiving About Yourself They Said Child Of God Forgive Yourself

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“Once you get clear on who you are, what you do, and what you have been CALLED to do, you become powerful.”

Has Beens Powerful Clear Who You Are

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“Wherever your gift is, that's where it's going to be your greatest challenge.”

Challenges

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“Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.”

Gratitude Grateful Be Grateful Magnet

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“Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.”

Knows Want Pain Our Lives Creating Confusion Disruption Stagnation Muster

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“Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.”

Pain Difficult Memories Currents Making Peace

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“Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.”

Hurt Healing Perception

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“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.”

Thinking Speak Existence Outcomes

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“When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.”

Want Feels Pain Moving Ready Forgiving Feel Better

Book:Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas

Source: Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas

“When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt.”

People Giving Strong Hurt Permission

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Our beliefs are what create our experiences. As we change our beliefs, we alter our perception, our version of reality.”

Reality Belief Perception Versions

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You cannot get to where you are going until you have learned all there is to learn about where you are.”

Where You Are Where You Are Going

Book:Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

Source: Until Today!: Daily Devotions for Spiritual Growth and Peace of Mind

“With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.”

Asks All Things Things In Life

Book:Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women

Source: Tapping the Power Within: A Path to Self-Empowerment for Women

“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.”

Want Stills Ends Use Speak Simple Forever Growing Periods Lessons Sentences Closure Exclamation Exclamation Points

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“WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.”

Doe Black Honor Black Women Adapted

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“Do what brings you joy, and your purpose will unfold.”

Joy Purpose

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“Accept all invitations to do a new thing. Dare not limit yourself. Move toward your wildest #‎ dream , take the labels off your mind, and step boldly into your greatness.”

Mind Dream Moving Accepting Steps Greatness Limits Dare Labels New Things Invitations Wildest Dreams

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“You are always being prepared for something better or protected from something worse.”

Prepared Protected Something Better

Book:In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

Source: In The Meantime: Finding Yourself And The Love You Want

“You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it.”

Thinking Mind Long Matter Problem Might Happens Faces Moving Opportunity Difficult Ability Possibility Limits Clouds Stuck Erase Muster

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“We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.”

Want Needs Our Lives Willing Fine Needed Priorities Needs And Wants Devalue

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“The ego encourages you to constantly prove yourself and what you already know. When you are in the presence of someone you feel the need to impress, the ego's automatic response is 'I know.' The moment you say 'I know,' you are demonstrating that you don't know. You can learn something valuable from everyone, in every situation.”

Knows Needs Feels Moments Situation Prove Ego Response Valuable Impress Demonstrating Proving Yourself

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“I am the one I have been looking for.”

Has Beens

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“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”

People Giving Important Stories Share Heal Acknowledge Permission Free Yourself

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“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.”

Way Perfect Accepting Growing Divine Fine Who You Are Brilliant Each Day Imperfection Brighter Accepting The Truth

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“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.”

Doe Facts Stuff Criticism Critical Criticize About Yourself Smarter

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“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.”

Want Has Beens Running Desire Walks Focus Commitment Obsessed Where You Are Where You Are Going

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“When you really believe that you are worthy of the best, that you deserve the best & that there is enough of the best for you to have plenty, there will be no need for you to hold on to what you have. Allow yourself to imagine what your life would be like if your hands and heart were to receive something better than what you are holding onto right now.”

Ifs Needs Believe Heart Enough Hands Would Be Imagine Right Now Deserve Worthy Plenty Holding On Something Better Deserve The Best

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“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.”

Choices Universe Grows Uncomfortable Making Changes

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“I am just an ordinary person committed to doing extraordinary things.”

Persons Ordinary Extraordinary Committed Extraordinary Things Ordinary Person

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“The goal isn't to be perfect, but to be authentic!”

Goal Perfect

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“Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.”

Grows Challenges Prepared Handle Be Prepared

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“Embrace the truth. Speak the truth. Be the truth. When we welcome the truth, we live our lives like it's golden.”

Speak Our Lives Truth Is Embrace Golden Welcome Speak The Truth

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Dark Walks Rooms Healing Mouths Silent Mysterious Feminine Nurturing

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“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.”

People Needs Mind Responsibility Mets Absolutely Nothing Need A Change

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“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!”

Problem Today Moving Forget Attention Trouble Willing Bored Remove

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“A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.”

Ifs Way Needs Feels Helping Care Order Hurt Air Wounds Heal Feel Better Nurture Nurturing

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“Create what you want as opposed to being stuck in what you didn't have.”

Want What You Want Stuck

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“When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.”

Healing Situation Surface Finding Yourself New Situations

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“When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!”

Looks May Doe Different Results Pay Attention Situation Honest Lessons Response Pay Attention New Things Routes

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“Transformation doesn't have to be deep, dark and mysterious. If you screw up, fine - laugh at yourself, learn and move on.”

Ifs Moving Dark Laughing Fine Transformation Mysterious Screws Screw Ups Laugh At Yourself Deep Dark

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“If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.”

Ifs Needs Asks Bigger

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“Spirituality is not about what you know. It is about growing, deepening, evolving and becoming a living reflection of your spiritual identity.”

Knows Spiritual Spirituality Growing Identity Becoming Reflection Evolve

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“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?”

World Needs Running Fighting Asks Breaths Firm Where You Are Running Away Deep Breath Stand Firm Take A Deep Breath

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“There comes a point in time when you must know that everything you have already given or done is enough. This is not something anyone else can tell you. You must know. Giving without receiving doesn't prove anything except that you know how to be taken advantage of.”

Knows Giving Done Enough Given Know How Taken Prove Advantage Receiving Taken Advantage

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