Iyanla Vanzant
Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.Collection: Fall
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.Collection: Letting Go
When a thing has served its purpose, it will go away. Sometimes it will break. At other times, it will simply die off. Then, there are those times when for no reason, it will simply fall apart. If you try to hold on to something that has already fulfilled its purpose in your life, you are going to hurt yourself. If holding on is disturbing your peace of mind, it makes sense to let it go.Collection: Hurt
You must be ready in mind, body, and spirit before you can make a change. People cannot convince you to do it. You cannot force you to do it. Everything you think, say, and do until that happens is just preparation. So love yourself right now. Honor yourself. Keep talking to yourself. Keep thinking ready thoughts. In the meantime, try to remember you will not be ready until you are ready.Collection: Love You
Stop hiding! Stop holding yourself back and playing yourself down! Stop worrying about how you look and what people are saying. Stop listening to what people are saying and trying to find out if they are whispering about you. Stop waiting for someone to tell you that you are okay or to make you feel special. Life is special! It is a special gift. This is your life! Now take your gift and live it out in the open! Decide today that you are going to live out loud!Collection: Life
Nothing destroys self-worth, self-acceptance and self-love faster than denying what you feel. Without feelings, you would not know where you are in life. Nor would you know what areas you need to work on. Honor your feelings. Allow yourself to feel them.Collection: Recovery
Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.Collection: Gratitude
Have you doubted your progress, regretted your choices, put yourself down? Remember that you are doing just fine. Remind yourself right now that no matter what it looks like, you are doing the best you can. And getting better. Encourage yourself, support yourself, and celebrate every little thing about yourself.Collection: Support
Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.Collection: Blessed
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.Collection: Regret
With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.Collection: Things In Life
No storm can last forever. It will never rain 365 days consecutively. Keep in mind that trouble comes to pass, not to stay. Don't worry! No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever.Collection: Rain
The only thing that goes on in your life is what your allow to go on in your lifeCollection: Goes On
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.Collection: Self
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.Collection: Positive Thinking
It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.Collection: Giving
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?Collection: Letting Go
Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.Collection: People
When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go.Collection: Letting Go
People have a right to change their minds and it has absolutely nothing to do with you. People change. As people change, their needs change. When people have a need, it is their responsibility to themselves to see their needs are met. And it has absolutely nothing to do with you.Collection: Responsibility
Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work. It also means you know that you are okay and that you will continue to be okay.Collection: Mean
It's important that we share our experiences with other people. Your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. When you tell your story, you free yourself and give other people permission to acknowledge their own storyCollection: People
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.Collection: Attitude
Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.Collection: Inspirational
Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.Collection: Safe Haven
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.Collection: Simple
As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Thinking
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.Collection: Appreciate
I have a body, but I am not my body. I have a face, but I am not my face.Collection: Inspiring
Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side.Collection: Inspiring
The way we do one thing is the way we do everything.Collection: Inspiring
When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.Collection: Order
You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!Collection: Strength
The best students get the hardest lessons.Collection: Lessons
I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.Collection: Mean
I must have decided wrongly, because I am not at peace.Collection: Decided
You`re demonstrating a courage that most people can`t even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourselfCollection: Order
If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.Collection: Healing
At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.Collection: Meaningful
You work for God Incorporated.Collection: Purpose
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.Collection: Real
Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.Collection: Thinking
I love a vision board. I have one hanging over my desk right now. Because what you see, you become, and it reminds you when you start getting busy in the day, about your vision. I like words more than pictures. I have a card sitting on my desk right now that says, "I only give out that which I wish to receive in return." It's one of Louise Hay's cards. Words remind me more and it gives me something to hold onto when I'm frantic about something else.Collection: Giving
I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.Collection: Loving Yourself
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. There was a time I wanted to be like every famous writer that ever lived. I tried to copy styles, reframe information, use similar artwork. I almost drove myself crazy! Now I just do what I do. I have mentors. There are people whose work I admire, but I write the way I write. I eat the way I eat. I dress the way I dress. I can't believe that God made us each so unique only to have us do everything the same way.Collection: Crazy
Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.Collection: Jobs
So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.Collection: Fall
Everything God does is purposeful. And since God is in each of us, each of us has a purpose.Collection: Motivation