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Iyanla Vanzant is a respected spiritual teacher and author, born on September 13, 1953. She is dedicated to helping individuals achieve spiritual fulfillment and personal growth through her teachings on self-improvement, healing, and transformation. Vanzant's work has been influential in inspiring many to embrace their spirituality and make positive changes in their lives.

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Famous Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

“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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“When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.”

Way Heart Desire Work Out Alignment

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

“Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart.”

Heart Prayer Attitude Knowing Praying Demand Not Knowing Complaints

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“It's about your heart and about your consciousness. It's not about length of time you pray. Some of the most powerful prayers I've ever heard come from children, who can barely speak.”

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“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.”

Heart Children Hard Process Born Natural Birth Circumstances Bones Innocent Flexible Tissues Hardened Tender Hearts Innocent Children

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“I have a daily message, 'Stimumail,' which I use to stimulate the mind and heart. I have the opportunity to touch over 60,000 people I have never met. I also use Twitter and Facebook.”

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“Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.”

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“You never put her in your heart.”

Heart Parenting

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“Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing.”

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“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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“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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“When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.”

Mind Heart Our Lives Draws Heart And Mind

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“If you heart had a voice, Beloved, what would it say?”

Ifs Heart Voice Being True Beloved Be True To Yourself True To Yourself

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“What keeps us from achieving our heart's desires is not anything outside of us, it's the conflict inside.”

Heart Desire Achieve Conflict Tough Tough Times

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“Till your mental soil with determination. Fertilize your emotional soil with positive words. And plant the seed of your heart's desire with your disciplined efforts.”

Heart Desire Effort Emotional Determination Plant Seeds Soil Positive Words

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

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

“Forgiveness means accepting what is or what has been and becoming willing to see it differently. You cannot un-hear what you have heard or un-see what you have seen. What you can do is stop believing that what occurred has somehow left you broken, damaged and wounded. While forgiveness ain’t easy, it’s the most important inner work you can do within your mind and heart.”

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Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“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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“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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“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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“Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.”

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“How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.”

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Author:Iyanla Vanzant