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"50 Iyanla Vanzant Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 13 September 1953 | Lawyer | Leader |

Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Worth Happen Draw Believe
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When you don’t show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you’re not. Then when they find out who you are, that’s when they leave.

Love People Find Fall
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Acceptance means that you know, regardless of what happened, that there is something bigger than you at work.

Acceptance Regardless Happened Bigger
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Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
Willingness Look Darkness Empowers
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If you are really paying attention and really ready to heal, the day will come when you recognize that forgiveness is the only way back to the center of your innocence.

Paying Attention Ready Recognize
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The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don’t want.
Way Get Really want
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It takes a lot more courage to let something go than it does to hang on to it, trying to make it better. Letting go doesn’t mean ignoring a situation. Letting go means accepting what is, exactly as it is, without fear, resistance or a struggle for control.

Courage Hang Better Resistance
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I have learned the hard way to mind my business.

Learned Hard Mind Business
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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.

Accept Reject Treated People
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Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.
Breathing Deeply Releasing Fear
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You’ve got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself.

Willing Lose Everything Gain
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“Stay in your lane, on your road, and in your world.”
Stay Lane Road World
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If what you are thinking doesn’t make you feel good, change that thought. Bad cannot bother you unless you are available.

Thinking Make Feel Good
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At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. Do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.

Worst Quickest Move Contribution
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Everything happens when it needs to happen; everyone is always where they need to be. You will never miss out on what is meant for you, even if it has to come to you in a roundabout way.

Happens Everyone Need Roundabout
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You’ve got to say no to the things that don’t honour you. No to the things that don’t bring you joy. And you don’t have to explain your no.

Honour Things Joy Explain
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“Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value.
Authentic Boundaries Vision Matter
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Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
Comparison Act Violence Against
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The best students get the hardest tests.

Best Student Hardest Test
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Plan your hours to be productive. Your weeks to be educational. Your years to be purposeful. Your life to be an experience of growth. To change. And to grow

Plan Hour Productive Educational
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When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

Share Story Empowering Heal
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Make peace with the past.
Make Peace Past
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Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.

Gratitude Magnet Grateful Receive
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I’m committed to starting over.
Committed Starting Over
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This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? Be thankful.
Morning Woke Give thanks Thankful
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You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid.

Right Thought Feelings Valid
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Stop trying to squeeze yourself into things that don’t fit you.

Squeeze Things Fit You
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Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth, and happiness.

Loving Selfish Self-centered Self-engrossed
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Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.

Happens Reflection Believe Draw
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“When we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.”
Peace Heart Minds Draw
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Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that everything happens for a reason. There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

Change Hard Healing Hurt
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The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice.

You Daily Spiritual Practice
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Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

Anger Color Fear Hurt
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I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you're ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.

Better Bus College Come
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People say I've had a difficult time in life. I think I've had an exciting time in life.

Difficult Difficult Time Exciting Exciting Time
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Whether at work, at home or in public, we have been trained to believe that who we are at the core of our being is often unacceptable. As a result, we work diligently to live up to - and sometimes down to - what others have made us out to be, whether or not it is an accurate reflection of who we are.

Accurate Been Being Believe
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.

About Connected Done Feel
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Talk about your negative experiences with the father, with your girlfriends. Not with your children. And bite your tongue when it comes to diminishing, denying, dismissing, name-calling.

About Bite Children Denying
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At times I have long conversations with God. Sometimes I ask questions. I admit that there are also times when I let out my frustrations, fears, and anxieties in less than honorable ways. No matter what I pray about or how I pray about it, the result I always get is comfort.

About Admit Also Always
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I grew up in the Holiness Church, where prayer was an event.
Church Event Grew Holiness
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.

Attendance Bed Belief Brain
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My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter.

Became Dark Father Filter
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For most of my life, I believed that my father had broken many of my bones. They were emotional and psychological bones; things no one could see, things that caused me to limp through life clutching for and holding on to people and situations that often rendered me immobile.

Believed Bones Broken Caused
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At birth, we are like cartilage - soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.

Become Becomes Birth Bone
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Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious.

Afraid Aggressive Along Because
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One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Avoid Blame Call Own
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Babies Down Embracing Going
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
Blocks Everyone Experience Expression
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I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.

About Acceptance Degree Everything
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I think most people think that a spiritual path or growing spiritually means that all of a sudden you'll be able to forecast the six lotto numbers and all your bills will be paid.

Able Bills Forecast Growing
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Iyanla Vanzant Quotes & Sayings