685 Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant

Relieving pain, like building trust, is an inside job. It is only when you have been broken down mentally, emotionally, or spiritually and choose to stand up and keep moving that you can know the true meaning and value of trust. Trust is a function of choice. Trust grows in hearts that have often been broken open by pain. Trust can unfold in response to devastation, disappointment, and, more often than not, a depth of dysfunction that threatens the human soul. But.

Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency.

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.

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.

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

Never judge your clarity based on someone else’s response.

You are never angry for the reason you think you are. There’s an older hurt under that.

Lives fall apart because they need to. They need to because they weren’t built the right way in the first place.

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