Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

We all have our demons, even if we say we don't.

We all have our inner demons.

Everyone carries around his own monsters.

(What are your ghosts like?) (They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.) (This is also where my ghosts reside.) (You have ghosts?) (Of course I have ghosts.) (But you are a child.) (I am not a child.) (But you have not known love.) (These are my ghosts, the spaces amid love.)

I've noticed from my fans that we hide the things that we are facing.

I'm afraid of the skeletons in my closet. I've got a whole cemetery full of them.

I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place.

All actors are on the run from some demon or other.

Every man has a rainy corner of his life whence comes foul weather which follows him.

I believe that behind both the person who weighs 400 pounds and the one who weighs 85 there is a lot of baggage, and it has nothing to do with their bodies.

Everyone has issues, and I'm not someone who likes to burden people.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

A lot of the time, I write in the third person, but I'm mostly describing my own ordeals. When those unsettled struggles prey on your mind, you become haunted. To get free, you must defeat your ghosts.

At the end of the day, we're all human beings, and people have their struggles and inner demons.

I don't think any one relationship in my life has wrecked me. I think I am a collection of wrecks.

Most people don't realise there's certain things that players go through off the field. Most times, guys are good at hiding things.

None of us get to divorce ourselves from the world. We walk into the theater and bring all of our grief and our pain and our joy with us.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Last time I really got to know myself it turned out there was a whole gang of bitches in there to deal with. I felt like the receptionist at a rehab center. They all had nice tits though, I gotta say.

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

You travel here and you travel there, trying to get out from under the cloud, and nothing works, and then one day you realize you've been carrying the weather around with you.

It's not just lies they're referring to. It's life. You can't run to another town, another place, another state. Whatever it is you're running from-it goes with you. It stays with you until you find out how to confront it.

That's good. I was worried. Of course, I do have a few things wrong with me, but those are strictly problems I keep inside. I'd hate to think they were obvious to anybody else. Especially at the swimming pool in the summer.

Though my problems are meaningless, that don't make them go away.

Every heart has its own skeletons.