iyanla-vanzant Quotes About ifs

“Spirit is the key to everything we desire. It is our weather-proofing, our Teflon, our line of credit that assures if we just keep putting one foot in front of the other, one day; there will be a miraculous payoff.”

Ifs Spirit Desire Lines Feet Fronts Keys One Day Credit Weather Miraculous Payoff Teflon

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Life Is Honest Letting Go Being Honest Get Better Unhealthy Stop Trying Honest With Yourself Unproductive Be Honest With Yourself

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“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Want Real Care Perfect Clear Praying Okay Who You Are Creator Ministry I Pray Alignment Showing Up

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“My grandma always said, "Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things!" If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater; something you probably could not handle now.”

Ifs Said Use Greater Trouble Bigger Prepared Handle Valleys Grandma My Grandma Bigger Better

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“Until today, you may not have realized that your life provides the content of your obituary. Just for today, examine your life. Think about all of the things you want to leave behind. Remember, the good thing about doing this today is that you still have time to rewrite your life's content if necessary.”

Ifs Thinking Want May Stills Today Remember Behinds Good Things Obituary Just For Today

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

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

“When you are not happy where you are, and you are not quite sure if you want to leave or how to leave, you are in the meantime. Its a state of limbo. You are hanging on, ready to let go, afraid to fall, not wanting to hurt yourself, afraid you will hurt someone else. In the meantime, you pray the other person will let go first so that you will not feel guilty.”

Ifs Want Feels Firsts Persons States Fall Hurt Ready Praying Letting Go Guilty Where You Are Not Happy Hanging On Limbo Hurts Someone

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

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“When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created.”

Ifs Mind Self Conditions Mouths Gossip Demonstrating

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“You have a right to say no. Most of us have very weak and flaccid 'no' muscles. We feel guilty for saying no. We get ostracized and challenged for saying no, so we forget it's our choice. Your 'no' muscle has to be built up to get to a place where you can say, 'I don't care if that's what you want. I don't want that. No.'”

Ifs Want Feels Care Choices Forget Built Weak Don't Care What You Want Guilty I Don't Care Muscles Forget It Saying No Our Choices

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“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.”

Ifs Knows Share Willing Ready Partners Biggest Fear Cellulite

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“I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can.”

Ifs Stills I Can Helping Ugly Good The Bad And The Ugly

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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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“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.”

Ifs Father Like Yourself

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“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!”

Ifs Needs Feels Shows Pay Compelled

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“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.”

Ifs Said College Ready Sitting Bus

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“If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.”

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“You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Stills Matter Facts Happens Spiritual Challenges Teacher Planets Difficulty Coaches Trials Ministers Immune Living On Spiritual Teachers

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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.”

Ifs Needs Mind Heart Possibility Forgiveness Forgiving Heart And Mind

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“If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?”

Ifs Way Doe Has Beens Remember Asks Hurt Letting Go Forgotten Disappointed Offended Let It Go Insulted Been Hurt Offended You

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“Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now. When we face our challenges with faith, prepared to learn, willing to make changes, and if necessary, to let go, we are demanding our power be turned on.”

Ifs Motivational Faces Grows Challenges Willing Letting Go Prepared Handle Happy Life Be Prepared Making Changes

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“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.”

Ifs Fear Chance Mistake Regret Take A Chance

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“If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.”

Ifs Want Laughing Plans

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“You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Distance Driving Curves

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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

“If you don't enjoy your life, sorrow, sadness, suffering, fear, shame and guilt will.”

Ifs Suffering Enjoy Sadness Sorrow Shame Guilt Enjoy Your Life Shame And Guilt

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“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!”

Ifs Behinds Mistake Focus Right Now Shame Who You Are Guilt Release Hiding Apology Beating Yourself Beating Yourself Up

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“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 a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.”

Ifs Trying Mind Sometimes Reason Purpose Dies Fall Hurt Break Make Sense No Reason Peace Of Mind Going Away Fulfilled Falling Apart Disturbing Holding On Let It Go

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“If you see crazy coming, cross the street!”

Ifs Crazy Streets Crosses

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“You cannot experience the fullness of your authentic self or life when you live to avoid hurt. You will never know the joy of love or the peaceful satisfaction of being loved if you hide from hurt.”

Ifs Knows Self Joy Hurt Satisfaction Peaceful Fullness Being Loved Authentic Self

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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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“If you want to be at peace, you have to be clear about your intetion and - moment by moment - in alignment with your intention”

Ifs Want Moments Clear Intention Being True Be True To Yourself True To Yourself Alignment

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“If you really want to live your life to the fullest and realize your greatest potential, you must be willing to run the risk of making some people mad. People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!”

People Ifs Want Life May Running Realizing Risk Willing Overcoming Mad Live Life Potential Live Your Life Overcoming Fear Negative People People In Your Life Live Your Life To The Fullest

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“Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us. That's why we have a weave, we're wearing Spanx and everything is 'fine.' 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.”

Ifs Knows Want Shows Share Willing Ready Fine Who You Are Partners Biggest Fear Cellulite Spanx

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“Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.”

Ifs Way Needs Happens Missing Things Happen Be You

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“When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.”

Ifs Feels May Hard Willing Conversation Feel Good Telling The Truth Breakdown

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“If you want a real experience of serenity, look for the good. Affirm the good. Acknowledge the good.”

Ifs Want Looks Real Acknowledge Serenity

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“If you want peace, be peace. If you want wealth, be wealth. Think it. Talk it. Prepare yourself to have it. Have faith enough to seek guidance and authority from within.”

Ifs Thinking Want Enough Wealth Authority Guidance Have Faith

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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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“If it's not your story to tell, you don't tell it.”

Ifs Stories

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“If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.”

Ifs Able Healing Tests Testimony

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“Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!”

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

“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.”

“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.”

Ifs Knows Vision Stuck

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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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“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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“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.”

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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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