Iyanla Vanzant Quotes And Sayings

In Order To Feel Loved, Be Respected And Stay Connected, We Humans Have A Tendency To Lie. We Lie About Who We Are, What We Want, What We Need, What We Have Done Or Will Do. Perhaps 'Lie' Is Too Strong A Word. Let Me Say That What We Do Is Withhold The Truth.

Any Time There Is 'Un-forgiveness' Between People Who Love Each Other, There Is Suffering. Any Time People Face Challenges That They Really Don't Understand... There Is Suffering.

I Have A Daily Message, 'Stimumail,' Which I Use To Stimulate The Mind And Heart. I Have The Opportunity To Touch Over 60,000 People I Have Never Met. I Also Use Twitter And Facebook.

Well The Beauty Of 'Iyanla: Fix My Life' Is That Men Are In Every Show. To Our Surprise, Some Of The Deepest Healing Demonstrations Have Been With The Men - The Sons, The Fathers, The Husbands - Because They Agree To Participate With The Wife Or The Daughter Or Whatever It Is We Are Looking At, And It Is There.

What I Am Doing; How I Am Being As I Am Doing It; And Does It Bring Honor To My Community? What Is The Lesson In What I Am Doing? And Most Importantly, Am I Having Fun?

You Know That You've Healed An Issue When You Can Talk About It And You're Not Weeping, When You Can Speak To It And Identify The Lesson. You Know That You've Healed An Issue When, Having Gone Through That, Has A Benefit That You Live Today.

After Being On 'Oprah' For A Couple Of Months, I Got My First Royalty Check For $1,478,392.17. I Will Never Forget It. At The Height Of My Career, I Made $3.3 Million. Unbelievable. From Welfare In The Projects To $3.3 Million.

I Realized It Was Happening, But Most People Didn't Realize It Was Happening. I Mean, Because As A Self-employed Person, When There Is A Recession Or A Cutback In The Economy, We Feel It First. Because Many Self-employed People Provide Services That Are Nonessential.

I Really Don't Have Any Weaknesses. I Do Have Areas Of My Life That I Am Working On To Grow, Heal And Evolve. Giving Myself Permission To Rest Is An Area I Am Working On. Not Rescuing My Children And Grandchildren Is Another Area.

It Is An Honor And A Privilege To Be Of Service And Support; However, I Realize People Are Not Putting Their Confidence In Me. Instead, They Are Actually Learning To Trust Themselves. My Job Is To Affirm And Support Them In The Process And Teach Them To Do What I Do When I Need Strength: I Begin Within.

Begin Within. If It Shows Up In Your Life, It's Coming To Tell You Something About You That You're Acting Like You Don't Know. Something About Yourself, Or Your Relationship With God.

I Took My Kids Everywhere. I Didn't Have Money For Child Care, So I Took Them To College With Me And They Sat In The Hallway.

You Know When I Was 20 And 30, They Were Insecurities. Now They're Just A New Normal. I'm 60 Years Old, So My Expectations Of Who I Am And How I Look And How I Show Up In The World Had To Shift. Not Because I Couldn't Help It, Or Not Because I Did Anything Wrong, But Because I Had To Get Into The Natural Flow Of My Being As A Woman.

I Try Not To Set Myself Up As Different Or As A Celebrity Or Special. I Have A Husband That Can Get On My Nerves. I Have Kids That Test My Patience. I've Got A Cat I Can't Keep Off The Sofa. It's Real. On A Bad Day, I'm Reading 'Acts Of Faith.'

I Came From Nothing. I Came From The Projects And Welfare And Ended Up A Millionaire With No Frame Of Reference. I Was Bound To Hit A Wall Sooner Or Later.

At Birth, We Are Like Cartilage - Soft, Flexible Tissue. By The Same Natural Process By Which Cartilage Becomes Hard Bone, The Soft, Tender Heart Of An Innocent Child Can Become Hardened By The Circumstances Into Which She Is Born.

Talk About Your Negative Experiences With The Father, With Your Girlfriends. Not With Your Children. And Bite Your Tongue When It Comes To Diminishing, Denying, Dismissing, Name-calling.

I Was Sitting On The Bus, And The Sign Said If You're Ready To Better Your Life, Come To Medgar Evers College, And I Got Off The Bus And Went To Medgar Evers College.

I Grew Up In The Holiness Church, Where Prayer Was An Event.

I Had No Preconceived Idea What Fame Would Be Like, Because I Never Thought I Would Be Famous. I Just Wanted To Do My Work. Hell, I Just Wanted To Pay My Rent On Time.

I've Always Told The Truth. I Think That's Been Part Of The Foundation Of My Career. I Don't Put Myself Above People. I Don't Put Myself Different Than People. And I, For One, Know That None Of Us Is Immune.

In 2002, My Daughter Was Diagnosed With A Rare Form Of Colon Cancer. And It Was Such A Shock, A Surprise To Us.

If You Don't Like Your Sister Or Don't Get Along With Your Father, Let's Find Out If You Like Yourself. Let's Not Sugarcoat Anything About It.

When Oprah Winfrey Tells You That You Need To Have Your Own Show, You Feel Compelled To Do It. Especially If She's Gonna Pay For It!

My Father Never Kissed Me, Hugged Me Or Told Me That He Loved Me. As My Only Living Parent, He Became The Filter Through Which I Saw Myself, The Possibilities For My Life, The World And All Men. He Was A Conflicted And Dark Filter.

People Say I've Had A Difficult Time In Life. I Think I've Had An Exciting Time In Life.

What A Blessing That God Allows A Life To Come Through Your Body, And Then Allows You To Place That Body In A Body Bag And Take It Out. I Had To Say That There's A Magnificent Something That God Has For Me To Do, To Give Me That Level Of Completion. That Level Of Experience. It's Unspeakable.