Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is.

Today, 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.

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

Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future.

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.

You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.

When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything.

You do not have to love what is going on in your life, but you must accept that it, whatever it is, is going on. As long as you do not accept reality, you are powerless to define the role you will play.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

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.

Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.

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.

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.

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

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

Learning to trust yourself and what you know takes time and work. You cannot expect to eradicate a lifetime of misguided information overnight. You must make a continuous, conscious effort to get on good terms with you.

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.

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.

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself.

Regardless of how hard, challenging, frightening, or difficult an experience may seem, everything is just as it needs to be in order for us to heal, grow, and learn.

Love is the voice of God whispering to you from within yourself.

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

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!

When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!

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.

When you are in alignment with the desires of your heart, things have a way of working out.

And perhaps you thought, "Because I'm doing so much spiritual work, I'm only going to attract angels." No! The more spiritual work you do, the more darkness you attract. Because the light don't need more light. The darkness needs light! The light doesn't need more light.

You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

There are going to be moments today you don't like me. You'll get over it.

The rules of the game of life are quite simple. Always tell the truth. Never live in fear of anything or anyone. Be conscious of what you are thinking so you can always think positively. Do everything that you do for the love of doing it. If you devote yourself, your time and your energy to following these rules, have no doubt - you cannot lose!

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

Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long.

I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.

Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.

I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.

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

I am the one I have been looking for.

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.

There are two emotions: love and fear.