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1. "What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

2. "I've seen the good, the bad, and the ugly. Lived it and I'm still here to talk about it and help someone else if I can." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

3. "My purpose is to teach and demonstrate what is possible. To demonstrate love of God and good. Remember what my role is as a woman: to be... good. My role as a mother: to teach, support and nurture my offspring. My role as a grandmother: to remind everybody - right where you are, God is." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

4. "At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

5. "I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

6. "In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was 'Help me.' Sometimes a prayer was 'Thank you.' What I've discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

7. "When you gossip, it's self-hexing. Because when you do it, it comes back to you. Everything starts with the word. The word is demonstrating a condition of the mind. If it's in your mind and comes out of your mouth, it will be created." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

8. "The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

9. "You've got to know what your 'thing' is, and you've got to call it a 'thing,' whether it's meanness, nastiness, un-forgiveness, arrogance, ego, resistance, rebelliousness or defiance. Everybody's got a 'thing,' and once you call your 'thing' a 'thing,' we can give it a place to be or dismiss it." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

10. "Comparison is an act of violence against the self." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

11. "All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

12. "In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

13. "Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

14. "A stable and nurturing childhood is essential for the healthy psycho-emotional and spiritual development of a human being. While we may understand what is supposed to happen to us physically, we must begin to better understand what happens to children mentally, emotionally and spiritually as a result of the families into which they are born." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

15. "Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

16. "Some of us pray demands. Some of us pray complaints. Some of us pray knowing, and some of us pray not knowing. But prayer is the attitude that you hold in your heart." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

17. "All things are lessons that God would have us learn." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

18. "Why can't women get along? Because we're afraid. We're afraid to be vulnerable. We're afraid to be soft. We're afraid to be hurt. But most of all, we're afraid of our power. So we become controlling and aggressive and vicious." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

19. "I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

20. "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

21. "Your willingness to look at your darkness is what empowers you to change." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

22. "choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

23. "Remain open. There is something bigger than you know going on here." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

24. "You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

25. "You can never love anyone to your own detriment. That is not love, that is possession, control, fear, or a combination of them all." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

26. "Yesterday, I cried.I came home, went straight to my room,sat on the edge of my bed,kicked off my shoes, unhooked my bra,and I had myself a good cry." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

27. "When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

28. "Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't.." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

29. "I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

30. "In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

31. "So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

32. "When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

33. "Their issues are not your issues." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

34. "When you need to be loved, you take love wherever you can find it. When you are desperate to be loved, feel love, know love, you seek out what you think love should look like. When you find love, or what you think love is, you will lie, kill, and steal to keep it. But learning about real love comes from within. It cannot be given. It cannot be taken away. It grows from your ability to re-create within yourself, the essence of loving experiences you have had in your life." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

35. "Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

36. "FORGIVENESS ADDRESSES HOW WE THINK AND FEEL ABOUT OTHERS AND OURSELVES AND HOW THOSE THOUGHTS MANIFEST WITHIN OUR LIVES AS ENERGY." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

37. "You don't get to tell people how to love you; you get to choose if you want to participate in the way they love." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

38. "When you feel unprotected, unsupported and unprepared to take care of yourself, your insides will feel if you have been through a train wreck. The best way to describe this experience is that you are having a head on body collision between your wannabe and your can never be." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

39. "Today I am devoted to addressing all the little things about me and in my life that I have not mastered!" ~ Iyanla Vanzant

40. "I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face." ~ Iyanla Vanzant

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