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“Their issues are not your issues.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, The Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide Through Life's Dilemmas

“When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Release and detach from every person, every circumstance, every condition, and every situation that no longer serves a divine purpose in your life. All things have a season, and all seasons must come to an end. Choose a new season, filled with purposeful thoughts and activities.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Fear wears so many clever disguises it is virtually impossible to always recognize it. Fear disguises itself as the need to be somewhere else, doing something else, not knowing how to do something or not needing to do something.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Act the way you want to be and soon you will be the way you act.”
― Ivanla

“Education does not take place when you learn something you did not know before. Education is your ability to use what you have learned to be better today than you were yesterday.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“So many of us invest a fortune making ourselves look good to the world, yet inside we are falling apart. It's time to invest on the inside.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“In the process of planning and having a wedding, I forgot there would actually be a marriage, a union of minds, bodies, souls, and issues that would come together as soon as the ceremony was over.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“I'd been taught not to like myself,because the people around me didn't, for whatever reason like me.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“Everyone has a purpose because God is a purposeful God.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“Before you find out who you are, you have to figure out who you aren't..”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
― Iyanla Vanzant

“when you have something to do life will not allow you to move foward until you do it.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through

“The road of life is strewn with the bodies of promising people. People who show promise, yet lack the confidence to act. People who make promises they are unable to keep. People who promise to do tomorrow what they could do today. Promising young stars, athletes, entrepreneurs who wait for promises to come true. Promise without a goal and a plan is like a barren cow. You know what she could do if she could do it, but she can't. Turn your promise into a plan. Make no promise for tomorrow if you are able to keep it today. And if someone calls you promising, know that you are not doing enough today.”
― Iyanla Vanzant, Acts of Faith: Daily Meditations for People of Color