You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. 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.
Iyanla VanzantYou 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 weโre going, weโd think it was too far.
Iyanla VanzantWhen you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.
Iyanla VanzantToday, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.
Iyanla Vanzant