black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I am the one I have been looking for.

Iyanla Vanzant

When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.
IYANLA VANZANT

Change Choice Growth Time
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 VANZANT

Fear Impossible Need Recognition Wisdom
When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.
IYANLA VANZANT

Empowerment Healing Story Yourself
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.
IYANLA VANZANT

Acceptance Control Courage Fear Ignorance Let Go Resistance Struggle
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
IYANLA VANZANT

Deep Ourselves Reflection Relationship
It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.
IYANLA VANZANT

Deep Listening Need Yourself
The only thing that goes on in your life is what your allow to go on in your life.
IYANLA VANZANT

Choice Life Power Yourself
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.
IYANLA VANZANT

Be Yourself Fall In Love Leaving People
When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
IYANLA VANZANT

Healing Pain Story Yourself
Their issues are not your issues.
IYANLA VANZANT

Issues Yourself
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 VANZANT

Carry Experience Forever Growth Lesson Live Simplicity Talk
Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you’re going to be disappointed.
IYANLA VANZANT

Dissappoint Wait Yourself
Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!
IYANLA VANZANT

Habit Self Love Smile Yourself
Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
IYANLA VANZANT

Courage Focus Guilty Hide Live Mistake Shame Yourself
You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.
IYANLA VANZANT

Affection Goodness People Self Love Support Time Yourself
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 VANZANT

Believe Reflection Thinking Worth Yourself
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.
IYANLA VANZANT

Afraid Creation Mistake Regret Yourself
Sometimes you have to lose everything in order to gain yourself.
IYANLA VANZANT

Inspirational Lose Yourself
Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt.
IYANLA VANZANT

Deep Fall Hard Time Live Need
You can direct the outcome of any situation you face through the power of thought. Keep your thoughts focused on the best possible outcome for everyone involved and never allow yourself to be pushed where you don’t choose to be.
IYANLA VANZANT

Direction Position Possible Power Yourself
When you’re the strong one, people don’t give you permission to hurt.
IYANLA VANZANT

Hurt People Strong Yourself
When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
IYANLA VANZANT

Commitment Decision Goodness Self Love Yourself
To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don’t know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding.
IYANLA VANZANT

Growth Life Moments Willing
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.
IYANLA VANZANT

Acceptance Development Growth Happiness Love Responsibility Yourself
Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.
IYANLA VANZANT

Challenge Growth Preparation Strength
With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.
IYANLA VANZANT

Expectation Life
Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.
IYANLA VANZANT

Alone Blessing Breathe Heart Listening Yourself

I am the one I have been looking for.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

I am the one I have been looking for.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Iyanla Vanzant Quotes