Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

The thing that is always important to me is the relationships. I feel like until I get around with the actual people that I am going to be working with there is only so much that I can do.

Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.

I've not been in a live-in relationship. But I've been exposed to various kinds of equations that can exist between people. When I came from Bangalore, it was black and white. Over the years, I've realised that there's more to what we see on a day-to-day basis. There are all kinds of relationships, all kinds of equations.

Life is about relationships, not transactions.

Relationships are really what interest me the most. And I think, in the end, they interest most people the most. Even when you read Tolstoy or something, basically they're about man and woman relationships.

In my opinion when you speak about relationships between people, you are actually talking about everything in their world because everything is contained in that relationship.

When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material.

I don't think anything's ever simple. Everyone's just trying to understand each other, and whether that's because you're in a relationship or because you're meeting their friends or because their meeting your brother or whatever it is, nothing like that is ever smooth running.

Never assume that the guy understands that you and he have a relationship.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

I knew I could write infinitely about relationships. That's the most beautiful, most confusing, most rewarding, most heartbreaking thing in our lives - and not just romantic relationships: that's all relationships.

As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

Any relationship has its strengths and weakness.

My experience of what a loving relationship is like rings true with a lot of people I meet. I have a theory that the people you meet, one way you choose them, is their suitability for you in that particular matter. Attitudes toward friendship and marriage are in many cases closely aligned.

It's the quality of your relationships that matters.

I need to find people who I respect so I can respect them, and they'll like being respected so they'll respect me, and that's like a marriage.

There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

Everything is expressed through RELATIONSHIPS.

We need to find ways to communicate with each other.

One of the ways we communicate that we can be trusted is in the way we care for other people.

For most people, the authentic things are relationships, friends, and family.

Relationships and trust. This is the bedrock of life.

There is always risk in relationships, but bottom line? The world has no meaning apart from relationships. Some are just messier than others, some are seasonal, others are difficult, and a few are easy, but every one of them is important.