We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant More Quotes From Iyanla Vanzant You must be willing to examine and explore your dark side. You must acknowledge how bad you can be and how horribly unloving you can behave. When you know how deep and dark your dark side is, it helps you stand a little taller in the light. Iyanla Vanzant loving-you light dark Don't get hung up on the hard times, the challenges. Tell your story by highlighting the victories. Because it's your victories that will inspire, motivate, encourage other people to live their stories in grander ways. Iyanla Vanzant hard-times challenges people 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 selfish responsibility mean I am now willing to forgive myself . . . for believing I could offer something to others before I have offered it to myself. Iyanla Vanzant willing forgiving believe You can't do anything as long as you are afraid of what might happen. Fear clouds opportunities, erases possibilities, and limits the ability to move beyond the place in which the mind is stuck. No matter how difficult we think the problem is, we must muster up the courage to face it. Iyanla Vanzant opportunity moving thinking Perhaps you went to bed last night thinking about the overdue bills, the lack of finances, the problematic people and situations you have to face. This morning you woke up. Did you give thanks? If you didn't, it is probably because you forgot that when praise goes up, the blessings come down. That should be enough to inspire you to be thankful. Iyanla Vanzant blessing morning night Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point. Iyanla Vanzant going-away spiritual views [God is] all that is. Everything. Everything. Breath, life. Just get Webster's Dictionary and throw it on the floor. It's everything... God is everything. Iyanla Vanzant dictionary breaths When someone entrusts their heart to you they are giving you a piece of their soul. You cannot treat the soul casually. You must protect, nurture and handle it with care. Iyanla Vanzant soul heart giving We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness. Iyanla Vanzant waste nasty giving When two broken people bring their broken pieces together, chances are they will never become a whole anything. Iyanla Vanzant broken two people When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached. Iyanla Vanzant stronger decision commitment To honor life, we must be willing to grow through what we don't know yet, and outgrow what we know no longer fits us. We must be willing to give in to the process, moment by moment, realizing a new plot may be unfolding. Iyanla Vanzant plot honor giving When you know something or someone in your life is unhealthy or unproductive, that you have grown beyond where they are and where they want to keep you, you must let go. If you tell yourself you do not see it when you do, or if you tell yourself it will get better, you are not being honest with yourself. Stop trying to fix things or change things. Simply let go. Iyanla Vanzant get-better letting-go trying It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full. Iyanla Vanzant healthy self mean With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect. Iyanla Vanzant asks things-in-life all-things One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy. Iyanla Vanzant men boys father When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to "Be still and know!" You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time. Iyanla Vanzant doing-you faith giving You've got to be willing to lose everything to gain yourself. Iyanla Vanzant willing gains inspirational We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are. Iyanla Vanzant outcomes speak thinking
