Iyanla Vanzant on change
Iyanla Vanzant71 quotes“Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.”
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Be patient with yourself. Be gentle with yourself. Know that all things are working in your favor. If you take one step toward the light of Spirit, Spirit will take five steps on your behalf.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Don’t get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it’s your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant 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.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Change doesn’t have to be hard, and healing doesn’t have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure- put a period to- those experiences that you don’t want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you’re still growing and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
Iyanla VanzantIyanla Vanzant If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
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I’ll trust in God’s unchanging Word, till soul and body sever. For though all things pass away, His Word shall stand forever.
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Joan RiversJoan Rivers When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
John CalvinJohn Calvin A little rain can straighten a flower stem. A little love can change a life.
Max LucadoMax Lucado God never promises to remove us from our struggles. He does promise, however, to change the way we look at them.
Max LucadoMax Lucado A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.
Martin LutherMartin Luther This grace of God is a very great, strong, mighty and active thing. It does not lie asleep in the soul. Grace hears, leads, drives, draws, changes, works all in man, and lets itself be distinctly felt and experienced. It is hidden, but its works are evident.
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