Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

As time goes by, I realize that I do trust the wind. And I often write my songs for myself.

Following your feelings will lead you to their source. Only through emotions can you encounter the force field of your own soul.

It used to make me unhappy, all that feeling. I just didn't know what to do with it. But now I've learned how to make feeling work for me... I don't know, I just want to feel as much as I can, it's what 'soul' is all about.

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

For, rightly, every man is a channel through which heaven floweth, and, whilst I fancied I was criticising him, I was censuring orrather terminating my own soul.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

Tell me what you are doing with your suffering, and I will tell you who you are.

I trust so much in the power of the heart and the soul; I know that the answer to what we need to do next is in our own hearts. All we have to do is listen, then take that one step further and trust what we hear. We will be taught what we need to learn.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

... a man has to think of his soul before everything else.

Throughout your life, your inner landscape presents its contents to you again and again. When you are aware of all its elements, you are in continual communication with your soul.

The real struggle is about you: you, a person who has to learn to live in the real world, to inhabit her own skin, to know her own heart, to stop waiting for life to begin.

There is a moon inside every human being. Learn to be companions with it.

A body is merely a vehicle. The deepest emotions are experienced through the soul.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.

In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.

You're in bad shape. It looks like you're developing a soul.

Great fiction shows us not how to conduct our behavior but how to feel. Eventually, it may show us how to face our feelings and face our actions and to have new inklings about what they mean. A good novel of any year can initiate us into our own new experience.

Don’t limit yourself and don’t let others convince you that you are limited in what you can do. Believe in yourself and then live so as to reach your possibilities. You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.

I saw deep in the eyes of the animals, the human soul look out upon me.

As you learn to TRUST YOURSELF something miraculous happens. You begin to TRUST THE PROCESS you are living and the miracles life brings!

[Our] first and foremost duty [is] to seek the Lord until we open the path of communication from God to our own soul.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

A certain construct of emotions that really define who you are and who you will become and I feel very much that my childhood is very alive inside of me, very close to me, very much part of me. And it's a sometimes painful, sometimes joyous inexhaustible resource for poetry.