In speaking the truth of your experience to another, it will serve you well to realize that how they choose to respond is not your responsibility. Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes From Iyanla Vanzant One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection. Iyanla Vanzant pain responsibility people When you're the strong one, people don't give you permission to hurt. Iyanla Vanzant strong hurt people It's time for you to move, realizing that the thing you are seeking is also seeking you. Iyanla Vanzant perseverance success happiness It is important to acknowledge all your feelings and not beat yourself up for having them. Your feelings are not good or bad, they just are. Iyanla Vanzant beats important feelings 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 impact hate thinking Right where you are is where you need to be. Don't fight it! Don't run away from it! Stand firm! Take a deep breath. And another. And another. Now, ask yourself: Why is this in my world? What do I need to see? Iyanla Vanzant fighting running needs Breathing deeply and releasing fear will help you get to where you want to be. Iyanla Vanzant breathing want helping At every single moment, we are given the opportunity to choose our future. What we do today will determine what we face next week, next month, or next year. It is at the moment of a particular occurrence that we are called upon to make a choice: Will I do it the way I've always done it, or will I do it a different way. Iyanla Vanzant single-mom opportunity next-week 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. Iyanla Vanzant our-relationship like-you acting There is nothing you need to do to make yourself more acceptable to God. You don't have to work harder, nor do you need to change the kind of work you do. You don't have to give more money to charitable organizations. The reality is, God doesn't want you to give anyone anything if you only do it to impress God! God does not love you or find you acceptable because of anything that you do. God loves you and accepts you because you are a part of God. Iyanla Vanzant hard-work god love-you When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there. Iyanla Vanzant parenting knows order We are distracted from our greatness because are greatness is what scares us. Right where you are…God is. Iyanla Vanzant where-you-are scare greatness When you really believe that you are worthy of the best, that you deserve the best & that there is enough of the best for you to have plenty, there will be no need for you to hold on to what you have. Allow yourself to imagine what your life would be like if your hands and heart were to receive something better than what you are holding onto right now. Iyanla Vanzant heart believe hands How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed. Iyanla Vanzant prayer heart believe Authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the same courtesy. Iyanla Vanzant authenticity mean way Every day is your day if you claim it. Iyanla Vanzant claims ifs 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. Iyanla Vanzant bags blessing giving Love is what you are, not what you give or get! Iyanla Vanzant love-is giving Our minds work like a garden. It is fertile ground that accepts any and everything we plant. Good or evil, constructive or destructive, our lives will bear the fruit of the seeds we plant in our minds. Iyanla Vanzant garden evil thinking Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow. Iyanla Vanzant passion educational years
