“I gave myself permission to feel and experience all of my emotions. In order to do that, I had to stop being afraid to feel. In order to do that, I taught myself to believe that no matter what I felt or what happened when I felt it, I would be okay.”
""The way to achieve your own success is to be willing to help somebody else get it first.""
- Iyanla Vanzant
Compassion
"Be clear. Be authentic. Have boundaries. Check your vision. Do what matters to you. And know what you value."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Self-awareness
"I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Self-awareness
"Comparison is an act of violence against the self."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Happiness
"One of the most important relationships we’ll have is the relationship we have with our mothers."
- Iyanla Vanzant
Relationships
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage