Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

• “Your greatest adversary is also your greatest teacher. Like it or not, it is the job of certain people to bring out the worst in you. What they trigger is already in you. They are here to reveal the sore, tender wounded places in your heart and mind, and they are providing you with a wonderful and divine opportunity for healing.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “You know why the road curves as you’re driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we’re going, we’d think it was too far.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “You are the light of the world. You are an instrument of the Divine. You are the greatest miracle in the world. Life is graced by your presence.” - Iyanla Vanzant
• “When you refuse to pay attention to what life is saying to you, life will make its point very clear. Life wants us to be aware of ourselves so we can make the necessary adjustments in order to live more harmoniously.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Would you believe that there are many eager angels, guardians and guides just waiting to serve you? They have everything you need to satisfy your spirit. Take a moment to identify all the things that would fulfill your spirit, then ask the angels to serve it up.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “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 
• “All things are lessons God would have you learn, and the best students get the hardest tests.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be.” - Iyanla Vanzant
• “Your character – your nature, the distinctive qualities of your essence, what make you – is developed through experience. When life detects that there is an opportunity for you to advance the nature of your character, it will send the perfect situation and people your way. Your job is to respond in a manner that develops and strengthens your character.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “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 
• “Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “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
• “You will stumble at time, forget what you want, fall headfirst into your old habits and beliefs. Fear not! Always remember to be patient and loving with yourself and others because that is what God does all the time.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “We are distracted from our greatness because our greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Your job, work, life assignment must be the spark that fuels your fire. It must be a passion that you pursue. You must want it enough to do it for free. You must be willing to stick with it, taking the ups and downs, giving it all that you are for as long as you can! You’ve got to taste it, smell it, know it whether you are awake or asleep. If you do not have a lustful passion for your work, you really need to find something else to do.” - Iyanla 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 Vanzant 
• “Today, I choose awareness. I choose to be aware of the beauty of life and living. I choose to be aware of the simple pleasures in life. I choose awareness of joy, awareness of peace, and awareness of love.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “Would you believe that there are many eager angels, guardians and guides just waiting to serve you? They have everything you need to satisfy your spirit. Take a moment to identify all the things that would fulfill your spirit, then ask the angels to serve it up.” - Iyanla Vanzant 
• “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