Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
IYANLA VANZANTYour willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.
IYANLA VANZANTLife will let you get away with something for a while, but sooner or later, you will pay the price. Everything you do in life causes the effects that you experience. When you get the bill, be prepared to pay.
IYANLA VANZANTSpeak 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 VANZANTIt 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 VANZANTBe 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 VANZANTEducation 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 VANZANTPeople may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
IYANLA VANZANTWe 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 VANZANTWe set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
IYANLA VANZANTIf you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
IYANLA VANZANTWhen your life is working there will be an absence of drama.
IYANLA VANZANTLove people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
IYANLA VANZANTListen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
IYANLA VANZANTWhen we have peace in our hearts and minds, we draw peace into our lives.
IYANLA VANZANTIt is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.
IYANLA VANZANTDon’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.
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