Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Accept what you can not change-change that which is unacceptable.

Possibilitizing is overcoming while you're undergoing.

Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.

Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

You cannot change everything you face and you cannot also change anything without facing it.

You can't change nothing unless you want to change it, and then if you don't like whatever situation it is, just grow from it, learn from it, don't let it happen again.

My understanding is that change is inevitable, and it's what I do with that opportunity that really matters.

Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.

I like challenges and I definitely would like to be more of a chameleon.

The things that go wrong for you have a lot of potential to become part of your gift to the world.

Every challenge takes you a little deeper and awakens you again and again. Without the challenges, you probably would go to back to sleep. The challenges keep you awake.

Whatever we cultivate in times of ease, we gather as strength for times of change.

People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to change.

The project you are most resisting carries your greatest growth.

Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.

Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

Accept the difficulty of what you cannot yet change. But do not accept the impossibility of ever changing it.

From adversity we can learn the value of patience.

This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!

Confronting and overcoming challenges is an exhilarating experience. It does something to feed the soul and the mind. It makes you more than you were before. It strengthens the mental muscles and enables you to become better prepared for the next challenge.

Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered.

Change is the nature of life but challenge is the future of life. So challenge the changes. Never change the challenges.

Everything that happens helps you grow, even if its hard to see right now.

When you choose to overcome something that could paralyze people, you have the choice to either let that happen or use that as a stepping-stone to something new and different in the future.