Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

At my age, you are naturally inclined towards teaching.

Being a mentor is something that's new for me but a role that I take very seriously.

Hopefully as you get older you get more selfless. That would be probably a good goal. I don't know if we do, though.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

The great thing about getting older is that you become more mellow. Things aren't as black and white, and you become much more tolerant. You can see the good in things much more easily rather than getting enraged as you used to do when you were young.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

Many years ago, I used to say, 'I haven't lived long enough to be great.' Now I don't say that.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

It's so much more interesting having life under your belt.

When you get a bit older, you gain more experience, and you try to put it to good use, to help yourself in different ways and also the young players.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

I've gotten away with a lot in my life. The older you get the more you realize you're not getting away with it, it's taking its toll somewhere. So you try not to put yourself in those situations. Part of the mysterious process called growing up. Some people do that better than others.

Age gives you a great sense of proportion. You can be very hard on yourself when you're younger but now I just think 'well everybody's absolutely mad and I'm doing quite well'.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

In my fifties, I was still in creation mode. Now I have more of a responsibility to step back and mentor and offer wisdom, offer sign posts on the path.

It is always in season for old men to learn.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually completely wrong.

All that I know I learned after I was thirty.