When you can tell the story and it doesn’t bring up any pain, you know it is healed.
IYANLA VANZANTEverything 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.
More Iyanla Vanzant Quotes
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Many of us have a need to be right. We then set out to make ourselves right by making someone else wrong. We must get right with ourselves. Once we do, we will have so much to do, we will not have time to keep track of who is wrong.
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You have a right to your thoughts and feelings. Your feelings are always valid.
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People may not like what you do, people may not like how you do it, but these people are not living your life. You are!
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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.
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Everybody does not have to like you. That is not their job. Liking you is not anyone’s purpose in life except yours.
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Give yourself permission to smile a lot today. In fact, why not make it a habit!
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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.
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If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?
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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.
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Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.
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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.
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It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.
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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.
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Life doesn’t actually knock you down. It does, however, provide you with many opportunities to evaluate your standing in life: what you stand on, what you stand for, how you stand within yourself and for yourself.
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Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.
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