Iyanla Vanzant
American inspirational speaker, life coach, and Yoruba priestess (an iyalawo of the Ifá tradition), one of the most influential African-American spiritual voices of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Born in 1953 in a Brooklyn taxi cab and surviving a childhood marked by abuse and early motherhood, she went on to become a public defender, an inner-city minister, an Oprah Winfrey Show favorite, and the host of OWN's Iyanla: Fix My Life. Her books — Acts of Faith, In the Meantime, Yesterday, I Cried, One Day My Soul Just Opened Up — have sold millions of copies and are particularly beloved in the African-American spiritual tradition for their unflinching honesty about generational trauma, self-love, and the work of healing.
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Quotes by Iyanla Vanzant
100 quotes“You cannot expect to have what you are not.”
“All life is a balance.”
“Don't be a slave to anything except your highest self.”
“You can love someone and not let them disrespect you.”
“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.”
“The only person you can change is yourself.”
“Don't try to figure out what other people want from you. Figure out what you want from yourself.”
“Pain is part of growing. So is joy. Don't push either away.”
“Self-love is the foundation. Without it, no other love can stand.”
“Trust the process. The process is the path.”
“You are not what they say you are.”
“To change your life, change your story.”
“The work is the work. There are no shortcuts.”
“Healing is choosing to stop adding pain.”
“You came here to be more than you have been.”
“What you tolerate, you accept.”
“Your value does not decrease based on someone's inability to see your worth.”
“Shame is the lie someone told you about yourself.”
“The only way out is through.”
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