Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzant
Iyanla Vanzantis an American inspirational speaker, lawyer, New Thought spiritual teacher, author, life coach and television personality. She is known primarily for her books, for her eponymous talk show, and for her frequent appearances on The Oprah Winfrey Show. She can currently be seen on television as the host of Iyanla: Fix My Life, and as a frequently featured guest teacher of Oprah's Lifeclass on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Show Host
Date of Birth13 September 1953
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
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I'm old. I don't want to work this hard.
The highest form of praise you can offer to yourself, to God and to the world is to spend time each day expressing gratitude. It says to God that you are aware and appreciative of grace. It says to life that you are acknowledging its awesome presence in you. It says to yourself that you are worth the time it takes to be healed. Time spent in silence, contemplation and gratitude is time spent in devotion to a higher calling and a more loving state of being.
If you should encounter angry or unkind actions today, take a deep breath, reach deep within and greet the lack of love with love.
When the time comes for you to make a change or to grow, the universe will make you so uncomfortable you will eventually have no choice.
Gratitude is like a magnet; the more grateful you are, the more you will receive to be grateful for.
We set the standard of how we want to be treated. Our relationships are reflections of the relationships we have with ourselves.
Comparison is an act of violence against the self.
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.
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.
Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction.
Everything we experience-no matter how unpleasant-comes into our lives to teach us something.
When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
We must each learn to feel comfortable in our own uniqueness by rising above the fear of being wrong and the aversion to being different.
If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.