Latest Iyanla Vanzant Quotes from Interviews

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• Many people want payback and to see others suffer. Forgiveness is the key to freedom. You can choose to be enslaved and burdened or you can choose to be free. It's a choice. Forgiveness is a state of being. So once you do it, it alters who you are and the way you can be in the world.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  People, Choices, Suffering

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Reflection, Meditation, Important

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I love a vision board. I have one hanging over my desk right now. Because what you see, you become, and it reminds you when you start getting busy in the day, about your vision. I like words more than pictures. I have a card sitting on my desk right now that says, "I only give out that which I wish to receive in return." It's one of Louise Hay's cards. Words remind me more and it gives me something to hold onto when I'm frantic about something else.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Giving, Vision, Wish

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• You've got to have a vision and an intention and that will guide what you do. I call it devotion. Ask yourself, "Is this not moving me toward where we need to be?" I believe that's helpful because a vision pulls you forward and it keeps you focused. A vision for the day, for the week, for the month and a lifelong vision - whatever works for you. And then you govern your activities and your behaviors accordingly.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Believe, Moving, Vision

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• Many of us believe that we are victims to what happens to us, and therefore unworthy of anything better. What we've been taught and trained to believe about ourselves as children, often this is negative and we need to unlearn that. The way we unlearn them is by having a vision and moving forward. Staying focused and being true to that vision of what we desire for ourselves.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Children, Moving Forward, Believe

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

• I encourage people to have a daily spiritual practice; that's the best way to take care of yourself. If you have that daily practice, it means you're getting divine guidance, and you're not being guided by your ego or your personality.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Spiritual, Mean, People

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Behavior, Individual

  Source: thegrio.com

• I see a couple of things missing. Any society, any community, even in the family, when the elders don't do their jobs, the youth suffer. We have no done our job. I'm saying anybody 55 and up. We didn't teach people the basic things.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Jobs, Couple, People

  "Iyanla Vanzant interview for fourth season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 6, 2014.

• We are missing the truth. We live in a society that lies and fosters and sells dishonesty at a discount. Remember the line, 'America spells cheese K-R-A-F-T? That does not spell cheese! We tell our kids that as long as it looks good on the outside, don't worry about the inside. Or work hard and you'll be rewarded in the end. That's not necessarily true anymore. We don't tell the truth about certain things. Young people see our hypocrisy. We haven't given them a model to follow.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Lying, Kids, Hard Work

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

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Military, America, Opposition

• We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Pythagorean Theorem, Challenges, Guilt

  "Iyanla Vanzant interview for fourth season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 6, 2014.

• You really have to learn what you're good at and what you're not good at, what you can handle and what you can't handle. We have a tendency to forget it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Forget, Tendencies, Forget It

  "Iyanla Vanzant Interview for Fourth Season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ Returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 06, 2014.

• I deal with my guests the same. I just love them. I deal with the issue as it is. There's no issue that can't be overcome. I don't tolerate disrespect of themselves or of me. And dishonesty. Those are two things that upset me. Don't tell me you said something or did something and you didn't. I'm very clear. I warn them early. There always comes a moment when you don't like me!

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Two, Issues, Disrespect

  "Iyanla Vanzant Interview for Fourth Season of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ Returning Sept. 6". Interview with Rodney Ho, radiotvtalk.blog.ajc.com. September 06, 2014.

• For some reason,we keep forgetting some of our experience. We look back but don't bring the value forward. We bring the anger, the upset. We bring the fear.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Upset, Looks, Forget

• You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Healing, Example, Levels

• Everything that's happening in our world is a function of what is going on inside of people. We are violent in our minds. We are violent with one another. We walk past one another in the street and don't even look nor make eye contact - don't speak. We can be outraged about the missiles and the planes. I'm more outraged that somebody will walk past me in the street and not look me in the face and say good morning.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Morning, Eye, Past

  Source: www.npr.org

• Tell the truth about who you are, what you feel, what you want, what you're up to. Tell the truth about that first to yourself and then to anybody else that'll listen.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Want, Firsts, Telling The Truth

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Dog, Thinking, People

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• Stuff your feelings because feelings buried alive don't die. And that fear or that upset or that anger or that whatever it is, it'll turn into something inside of you. So you want to get it out.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Upset, Feelings, Alive

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Thinking, Progress, Problem

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• You can't look outside of yourself. You must look within yourself, and address all of the things that are going on within you, and clear out the things that are not useful. Whether it's fear or anger or shame or guilt or whatever it is - clean that stuff up.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Guilt, Looks, Addresses

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you stay focused, not on the rightness, wrongness, fairness of the event, but on the appropriateness of your response.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Events, Fairness

  Source: www.npr.org

• Anything that threatens, hinders, obstructs, denies, delays your capacity to stand fully up for yourself, within yourself, take it down.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Delay, Deny, Capacity

  "Iyanla Vanzant: Clarity, Forgiveness Key To Tackling Big Transitions". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. July 28, 2014.

• Many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential. So whether you get your hair done less or your hair cut less, or your nails done less, as a writer and a speaker I was very clear that corporations weren't being as open and as generous and I wasn't getting the kind of work that I usually got.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Cutting, Hair, Self

  "After Suffering Loss, Iyanla Vanzant Starts Over". "Tell Me More" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. May 27, 2009.

• I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Car, House, Vision

  Source: www.pbs.org