Top 380 Iyanla Vanzant Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “From where you sit, it may seem that certain people should know better. People are who they are and do what they do whether or not you like it or agree with them. We each have different lessons to learn. We each take a different path to our lessons.”

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302. “There are going to be moments today you don’t like me. You’ll get over it.”

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303. “Life doesn’t have to be hard, life is on your side.”

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304. “I’ve always told the truth. I think that’s been part of the foundation of my career. I don’t put myself above people. I don’t put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.”

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305. “Respect you love one enough to know thay can handle your truth.”

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306. “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.”

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307. “With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.”

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308. “When you believe, or are led to believe, you are unable to act upon the greatest desires of the soul, the result is mental and spiritual enslavement.”

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309. “Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away; it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.”

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310. “If you heart had a voice, Beloved, what would it say?”

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311. “At birth, we are like cartilage – soft, flexible tissue. By the same natural process by which cartilage becomes hard bone, the soft, tender heart of an innocent child can become hardened by the circumstances into which she is born.”

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312. “Help me to see new ways of being as I release old ways of seeing.”

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313. “Very often we claim to know something. We get an idea about what to do or not do, yet, for some reason our behavior doesn’t change. At times, we just can’t seem to do what we know. This is known as mental healing. Something has shifted in your thinking, but it has not reach the other levels of your being – the heart and the spirit.”

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314. “There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.”

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315. “There is a healing power to releasing what was that allows you to receive what is and will always be – more than enough.”

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316. “Those whom the devil would tempt, He tells not a lie, but a lesser truth.”

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317. “You’re making it about them. This has got about you, because you don’t have peace.”

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318. “When your life is working there will be an absence of drama.”

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319. “If our parents do not fare well and we are constantly frustrated because our needs are not met, we can end up with a conscious or unconscious sense of worthlessness, helplessness, and a mistrust of people and the world in general.”

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320. “I was sitting on the bus, and the sign said if you’re ready to better your life, come to Medgar Evers College, and I got off the bus and went to Medgar Evers College.”

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321. “I took my kids everywhere. I didn’t have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.”

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322. “You simply cannot pay the debts that come along with believing you are unworthy.”

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323. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison. – NELSON MANDELA.”

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324. “An unpeaceful mind cannot hear God. Any unpeaceful feeling is the indicator that what I am thinking is forgivable.”

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325. “I don’t think there’s such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about.”

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326. “Love is what you are, not what you give or get!”

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327. “If a job isn’t worth dreaming about, it isn’t worth having. – Deborah Gregory.”

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328. “Whether you consider yourself religious, spiritual, somewhere in between, or nowhere on the continuum, your relationship with your Source, Creator, or Divine Essence impacts and affects every relationship in your life, including the relationship you have with yourself.”

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329. “Any time in America when the military has to stand in opposition of their own citizenry, something is wrong.”

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330. “Ponder said to write down what I wanted and to forgive myself for not having it.”

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331. “I learned that telling the truth was a big part of loving yourself.”

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332. “Today, I ask to be forgiven for it all as I forgive others. Today, I choose to see the world and all people with the eyes of love, acceptance, and peace.”

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333. “We must fill our minds with a truth loud enough to drown our the incessant defeatist voice of the negative ego.”

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334. “Most of us have just learned to exercise our survival muscle. It’s time to build our victory muscle.”

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335. “It is far better to be free to govern or misgovern yourself than to be governed by anybody else. – Kwame Nkrumah.”

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336. “If you don’t ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.”

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337. “I had loved one man most of life only to have him leave me not once or twice but four times for someone else.”

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338. “Much to my surprise, as I set them free, I was able to forgive myself for the judgments I had made about them. I now hold them in a loving space in my heart and honor them as my ancestors who love me and guide me each day.”

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339. “The key is to be grateful for the scenarios we choose and those in which we find ourselves. The issue is to forgive ourselves for the judgments we have made about the work we do, the people we work with, and the value of what we bring to the work we do.”

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340. “Why are you measuring? This is how you block, delay, hinder, obstruct and deny his place in the life as a father.”

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341. “We’re all in prison. All of us are in prison, but some of us have a key.”

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342. “When Oprah Winfrey tells you that you need to have your own show, you feel compelled to do it. Especially if she’s gonna pay for it!”

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343. “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.”

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344. “Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.”

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345. “The ego does not want to be wrong, ever.”

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346. “Learning to trust yourself means focusing on the good you are, the good you have, and the good you desire so that the truth can heal all error thought and allow you to see the blessing hidden in all that you have been through, gone through, and grown through.”

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347. “We voluntary participate in things that we know are causing us harm because we believe we’re powerless to do anything about it.”

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348. “The underlying message of her efforts was that I could not trust my own instincts because to do so might lead to a fate far worse than the punishment I had received. It also communicated to me that my behavior could, and often did, cause problems for other people. Believing, or being taught to believe, that what you do is wrong is one thing. Learning, or being told, that who you are is wrong opens up a much deeper wound that has a direct impact on your ability to trust yourself. In.”

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349. “I don’t think anybody can be held accountable or responsible for anyone’s behaviors expect the individual. This goes beyond that particular situation.”

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350. “If I am seeing something that is blocking my awareness of love, it is an image of a false idea that I created and only forgiveness will dissolve it.”

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