Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force love, you don't force falling in love, you don't force being in love - you just become. I don't know how to say that in English, but you just feel it.

Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.

Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.

I have a word for you. I know your whole life story. I know every skeleton in your closet. I know every moment of sin, shame, dishonesty and degraded love that has darkened your past. Right now I know your shallow faith, your feeble prayer life, your inconsistent discipleship. And my word is this: I dare you to trust that I love you just as you are, and not as you should be. Because you’re never going to be as you should be.

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

My definition of a friend is somebody who adores you even though they know the things you're most ashamed of.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.

You can't make everybody love you. It's an exercise in futility, and it's probably not even a good idea to try.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

You've got to be strong enough for love. It's very easy to be cool and cynical. It's very difficult to just let yourself go and be in love. You've got to be strong enough for that.

If you have feelings for someone, be honest with yourself and the person you care about, but trust that there is someone out there who will love you for who you are and will stay by your side.

If you can fart in front of somebody, you know that they love you.

The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.

Being in love is all about the ability to give rather than take. It is not easy, but if you can accept this, then you will experience love.

And I'll see your true colors shining through I see your true colors and that's why I love you so don't be afraid to let them show your true colors, true colors are beautiful like a RAINBOW.

Love, love, love, says Percy. And hurry as fast as you can along the shining beach, or the rubble, or the dust. Then, go to sleep. Give up your body heat, your beating heart. Then, trust.

In Friendship we only see those faults which may be prejudicial to our friends. In love we see no faults but those by which we suffer ourselves.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

Maybe, sometimes, it's easier to be mad at the people you trust because you know they'll always love you, no matter what.

But there's the beauty of life beyond the bubble. It's possible for someone to see your wicked bits and still love you.

All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I love you - just because I am.

I love you as you are, but do not tell me how that is.

Truth makes love possible; love makes truth bearable.