Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others

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.

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.

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

Never judge your clarity based on someone else's response.

We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within.

Their issues are not your issues.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.

No whining, no complaining about anyone. Everybody in your life has come to teach you lessons.

Just give yourself permission to tell the truth to yourself.

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

Never underestimate the ruthlessness of the ego to keep you in a state of suffering in which you voluntarily participate.

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.

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

Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.

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!

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.

You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

The only energy that has any power in your life is the gift of breath from God.

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.

Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.

Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

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

Sooner or later, we must all accept the fact that in a relationship, the only person you are dealing with is yourself.

You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

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.

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.

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

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.

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.

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.

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

When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.

I'm really not that fierce.

Healing is the application of love to the places inside that hurt.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

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

Who you are is strong enough to bare your pain

A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.

Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.

The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.

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

The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.

In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility.