Iyanla Vanzant Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Order #Be Who You Are #Important

“People are hurting. People are suffering. But you can not get everywhere.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Hurt #People #Suffering

“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!”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Running #People #Mad

“I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Car #House #Vision

“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?”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Letting Go #Hurt #Let It Go

“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.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Real #Perfect #Ministry

“You cannot make your life move faster than it's moving. No matter how urgent your situation may seem to be, things are going to happen when they happen, not a minute sooner. Be patient with yourself. Be patient with others. Be patient with life. Patience always pays off.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Moving #May #Pay

“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.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Guilt #Looks #Addresses

“Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Gratitude #Grateful #Be Grateful

“Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Want #Firsts #Telling The Truth

“You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don't choose to be.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Outcomes #Faces #Situation

“Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Morning #Eye #Past

“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Inspiring #Empowering #Darkness

“Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Thinking #Progress #Problem

“Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Challenges #Be Prepared #Grows

“The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Mean #Events #Fairness

“You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#People #Sometimes

“Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Delay #Deny #Capacity

“Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in a feast of spiritual food? How about a plate full of prayer? Or maybe a few hours of succulent self-reflection. Perhaps a piping-hot selection of spiritual literature, served by the side of a lake or under a tree, would satisfy your spiritual hunger. Can you imagine feasting for a few hours on spiritually uplifting music? What about some forgiveness à la mode, topped with compassion? You cannot imagine how much your spirit would enjoy it.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Uplifting #Spiritual #Prayer

“Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Cutting #Hair #Self

“Criticism does not make you smarter or better than the one you are criticizing. In fact, the stuff you are critical of in others is the same stuff you don't like about yourself.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Criticism #Doe #Stuff

“Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Upset #Feelings #Alive

“Anger simply means that your personal power - your personal space, your personal sense of being - has been violated”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Mean #Space #Be True To Yourself

“The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Inspiring #Spiritual #Practice

“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.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Hurt #Giving Up #Pain

“Changing your life does not always mean that you stop doing certain things. It may mean that you start doing certain other things. What you really want to do is nurture the attitude that you are open to learning more about yourself. Accepting more about yourself. This is what will inspire you to do something new.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Attitude #Mean #Inspire

“My vision is to elevate the consciousness of humanity one mind, one heart, one life, one spirit at a time. They are married.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Heart #Humanity #Mind

“Staying focused on a project or plan is one of the most difficult challenges we face. There is always the house to clean, calls to make, laundry to fold, deadlines to meet. Actually, there is only one thing that keeps us from our goals - lack of focus. And very often, lack of focus is caused by fear.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Goal #Focus #House

“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Teacher #Pain #Home

“Crying purifies and cleanses. I once read about a scientific experiment which demonstrated that there are 38 toxic chemicals in a tear of sadness, while only one toxin exists in a tear of joy. As you cry in sadness, fear, or confusion, you cleanse the body and spirit of toxins which cloud the mind and prevent it from accepting the truth.”
-- Iyanla Vanzant

#Sadness #Clouds #Confusion