Quotes from Iyanla Vanzant

If It's Not Your Story To Tell,Don't Tell It...

Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.

COMPARISON IS AN ACT OF VIOLENCE AGAINST THE SELF

Honor your own Self. Meditate on your own Self. Worship your own Self. Kneel to your own Self. Understand your own Self. Your God dwells within you as you.

Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.

Self-trust is about having an inner voice, being connected to that inner voice, learning how to hear and follow that voice, and doing the personal healing work required to make sure that the voice you hear brings your best interests to the forefront of your mind. Connecting

The good news is that when you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it. The bad news is the same.

Some of us will plant the seed and never see the plant.

The extent and extenuation of your pain renders you unconscious.

The greatest gift of surrender was that it helped me to realize that it is arrogant of me not to forgive myself when God forgives me.

Once you become willing to let it all go, God will open a new space in your heart and rewire your brain to know, receive, and express love in healthy ways. I forgive myself for believing that what I made up about who they were is the truth I had to live with for years of my life.

Judgment is harsh and mean and meant to hurt, as if the pain of what we do or say will slap others into our way of believing.

Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.

Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren't built the right way in the first place.

There is only one way to shift your consciousness from painful conditional attachments to peaceful unconditional love. You must create new love expectations based on honour, respect & support. Honour what you feel by believing you can have what you want. Respect where you are in your life, understanding that when you are ready to move forward you will. Support yourself by refusing to accept less than you want. This is your foundation.

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

Let yourself remember and visualize the ways you have hurt others. See the pain you have caused out of your own fear and confusion. Feel your own sorrow and regret. Sense that finally you can release this burden and ask for forgiveness. Take as much time as you need to picture each memory that still burdens your heart.

I now understand that our life experiences come forth from our souls and that nothing really happens to us; it all happens for our benefit.

Comparison is an act of violence against the self. It also leads to judgments and jealousy of those we deem "better off" than we are. If we aren't the ones doing the comparing, then we're the ones against whom other women measure themselves. In either case, the comparison, judgments, and jealousy can lead to ugly behavior.

The impact of a lack of self-acceptance is intensified in the relationships between and among women.

When you spend more time being angry, hurt, and upset about what happened, you pretty much barricade the door of what is possible.

Live your life in PEACE, not in PIECES...

Forgiveness frees the forgiver.