Top 451 Quotes & Sayings by Iyanla Vanzant - Page 7

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.

Every day is your day if you claim it.

I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.

Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy.

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

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.

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 can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

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.

You are demonstrating to men that they can come back and get their kids. All of those fatherless sons and daddy-less daughters and the men who didn't know how to go back, you are demonstrating to the world that they can.

Many of us believe that we are victims to what happens to us, and therefore unworthy of anything better. What we've been taught and trained to believe about ourselves as children, often this is negative and we need to unlearn that. The way we unlearn them is by having a vision and moving forward. Staying focused and being true to that vision of what we desire for ourselves.

Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It's time to build our victory muscle.

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

Religion is the rules, regulations, ceremonies and rituals developed by man to create conformity and uniformity in the approach to God. Spirituality is God's call in your soul.

We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we're powerless to do anything about it.

Choice is our point of power.

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.

Sometimes on the journey, you step in dog poop. But you don't let the whole journey be about the fact that your shoe got poop on it.

When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.

People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.

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.

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

Every choice you make supersedes and overrides every other choice you make.

All relationships have the same basic components: people, needs, and expectations.

Love is durable. It's like Teflon. ...Trust is like fine china. Secrets destroy trust.

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

I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I've got a cat I can't keep off the sofa. It's real. On a bad day, I'm reading 'Acts of Faith.'.

Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt...acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.

Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency

There are two emotions: love and fear.

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

What we must realize is that we cannot see everything. We do not know everything. More important, we must understand that it is impossible for us to control anything. The process of life is a spiritual one, governed by invisible, intangible spiritual laws and principles.

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.

You are the only one who can do it like you do it. You are the best. You have what it takes. You have the power. When you put your mind to something, you get it done. So what are you waiting for?

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

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.

Mistakes are lessons that you need to learn!

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.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There's an older hurt under that.

I believe that the only thing that will dispel the darkness is for the light to come on. And the lights are coming on. Here, there. People are eating more vegetables, living green, taking in and saving animals. All of that is the light coming on.

What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.

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

Ytalding is not always pretty or easy. And it doesn`t came quick

We have a tendency to always test people's love. 'I want to see how badly I have to behave before you'll leave me. Because I don't really think you want me anyhow.'

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

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

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

I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.

Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.

Had I not spent so much time doing something that made me so miserable, I would have never learned how to appreciate doing what brings me joy.

In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.

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

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.

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.

Once we become aware of our issues and challenges, we become accountable to do something about it.

I'm okay, you're okay. Now let's go to work.