iyanla-vanzant Quotes About giving

“Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face. This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? If you didn't, it is probably because you forgot that when praise goes up, the blessings come down. That should be enough to inspire you to be thankful.”

“It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.”

Giving Messages

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“Love is what you are, not what you give or get!”

Giving Love Is

Book:Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

Source: Don't Give It Away!: A Workbook of Self-Awareness and Self-Affirmations for Young Women

“Your interests will guide you. Give no concern to what they say you cannot do. Be willing to accept the challenge. Take time to retreat to that quiet place within the pit of your soul and unleash your right to decide what is best for you.”

Giving Soul Interest Challenges Accepting Willing Quiet Concern Guides Your Soul Take Time Retreat Pits Quiet Place

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it.”

Giving Mean Willing Circumstances Responsible Unconditional Love Unconditional

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

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

“There are no guarantees in life, but it is a sure thing that you will get back what you give. If you give 100 percent of your attention, energy, and time to a thing, you will get exactly that back. Make sure you give all that you have to make sure you will get all that you need.”

Ifs Needs Giving Energy Attention Percent Guarantees Get Back Sure Thing Give 100 Percent Guarantees In Life

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“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.”

People Giving Eye Ready Reflection Direct Thanks Preparation Abundance Heads Up Thanks For Everything

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“Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.”

Giving Telling The Truth Permission Truth To Yourself

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“I love a vision board. I have one hanging over my desk right now. Because what you see, you become, and it reminds you when you start getting busy in the day, about your vision. I like words more than pictures. I have a card sitting on my desk right now that says, "I only give out that which I wish to receive in return." It's one of Louise Hay's cards. Words remind me more and it gives me something to hold onto when I'm frantic about something else.”

Giving Wish Vision Busy

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“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.”

Knows Giving Ego Resistance Arrogance Defiance Meanness Nastiness

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“In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.”

Love Giving Mind Humans Age Spiritual Order Grows Human Beings Share Unions Available Heal Intimacy Partnership Giving And Receiving Spiritual Partnership

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“At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.”

Ifs Way Giving Mean Helping Problem Moving Grows Attention Focus Worst Meaningful Contribution

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“I'm focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal - giving them tools to heal.”

People Giving Healing Teaching Tools Heal

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“Oprah Winfrey gives you the stage? Shut your mouth. I said, 'I'm sorry for taking over your show.' She said, 'No, that's why we have you here.'”

Giving Said Shows Stage Mouths Sorry I'm Sorry

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“What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.”

Giving Body Levels Blessing Give Me Your Body Bags Magnificent Completion Unspeakable

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“I really don't have any weaknesses. I do have areas of my life that I am working on to grow, heal and evolve. Giving myself permission to rest is an area I am working on. Not rescuing my children and grandchildren is another area.”

Giving Children Grows Weakness Areas Heal Evolve My Children Permission Grandchildren Children And Grandchildren

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“Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.”

Source: Acts Of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Colour

“Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.”

“When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care.”

Giving Heart Soul Care Pieces Protect Treats Handle Nurture

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“In love, there is a total acceptance of self, and a willingness to give of self without an expectation of receiving anything in return. When you love, you are not afraid to share the truth of who you are, and you accept the truth of others without judgment.”

Giving Self Accepting Share Love You Acceptance Return Judgment Expectations Who You Are Willingness Self Acceptance Not Afraid Receiving Accepting The Truth

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“You`re demonstrating a courage that most people can`t even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself”

People Giving Order Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Fathom Demonstrating Giving It All

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“Life gives you an endless supply of do-overs.”

Giving Endless

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“We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.”

Ifs Giving Waste Misery Valuable Miserable Pleasant Unhappiness Nasty

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“When you continue to give without receiving, the only thing you are proving is that you know how to be taken advantage of.”

Knows Giving Know How Taken Prove Advantage Receiving Taken Advantage

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“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.”

Knows Giving May Moments Grows Process Realizing Willing Honor Fit Plot Unfolding

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“We must learn not to give up when requirements are not met or when commitments are broken. To do so is a refusal to allow mistakes to be corrected and a demonstration of an unwillingness to forgive yourself or anyone else who needs forgiveness.”

Needs Giving Mistake Broken Mets Giving Up Commitment Forgiving Requirements Not Giving Up Refusal Demonstration Forgive Yourself

Book:Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

Source: Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“There is nothing you need to do to make yourself more acceptable to God. You don't have to work harder, nor do you need to change the kind of work you do. You don't have to give more money to charitable organizations. The reality is, God doesn't want you to give anyone anything if you only do it to impress God! God does not love you or find you acceptable because of anything that you do. God loves you and accepts you because you are a part of God.”

“You must earn what you have. Life does not give you anything. You must give in order to get. You must stand up to the very thing that challenges you, look it in the face, get clear about your intention, order your thoughts and your life, and proceed without fear or hesitation. Life is not unfair. Along the way, you will always find bits of information and support to guide you to purpose.”

Way Giving Looks Doe Faces Life Is Purpose Order Bits Challenges Support Clear Information Intention Guides Unfair Hesitation

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

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

People Giving Strong Hurt Permission

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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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“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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“The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.”

Giving Life Is Forget Responsibility Giving Up Treats Universal This Life Forget You Devalue

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“Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!”

Giving Facts Today Habit Why Not Permission

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“When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.”

Giving Persons Sacrifice Degrees Thieves

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“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.”

Knows Way Giving Stills Facts Able Faith Willingness Doing You God Is Able

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

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

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