Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I want to live a fulfilling life.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run.

Life: my favorite occupation.

Happiness for me is getting to write about the most important things I know.

The only thing that's important is that every day I'm waking and doing something that I really love to do.

I would like my kids to follow their bliss.

You only have one life and if you're not doing what you love, what's the point?

You have to love what you do. And in order to do that, you have to search your soul to find out what it is that you really are about. And then when you find it, if you're lucky enough to be in a position to do what it is that you love, it becomes easy. I'm blessed that I ended up doing exactly what I wanted to do.

If you don't wake up and have your own thing, whether it's writing or reading or traveling or acting or dancing or singing or being a mother or a father, something that drives you, then it's all worth nothing. One of the key elements in happiness is purpose.

When you get to do things you love with every fiber of your being, it's a different experience.

The things that bring you the greatest joy are in alignment with your purpose.

The purpose of your life is Joy.

Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.

It is not peace we seek but meaning.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.

I love my life, because I’ve seen my purpose.

Your vocation lies in the intersection of the world's deep need and your deep joy.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

The secret is to find what you love to do.I mean, I tell the students look for the job that you would take if you didn't need a job. I mean, it's that simple. And I was lucky enough to find it very early in life. And then the second thing is to have people around you that make feel good every day, and make you a better person than you otherwise would be.

A man knows when he has found his vocation when he stops thinking about how to live and begins to live.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy.

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

I think most people struggle over a matter of years to find a satisfying way to live.