Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I have learnt that life is full of ups and downs. And even though I've had rough times, I can't complain.

No one has a life where everything that happened was good. I think the thing that made life good for me is that I never looked back. I've always been positive, no matter what happened.

I'm taking all the negatives in my life, and turning them into a positive.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

Life has its ups and downs, but you can only look forward.

We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.

What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.

Adversity isn't an obstacle that we need to get around in order to resume living our life. It's part of our life.

It has been a difficult road this year, but still I look at every day as a new opportunity.

It's part of life to have obstacles. It's about overcoming obstacles; that's the key to happiness.

I've had a very happy life, and although I have had tragedy, I've never suffered from any darkness.

There are some harsh realities about this business, and they've been beaten into my psyche. But I'm more of an optimist than a pessimist.

The ups and downs are part of what has made you.

Life's too short to dwell on things. When you go through experiences that are bad, it's a good thing. You learn from it - become a stronger person. Life is a roller coaster, and you don't know what's going to be thrown at you next, so all you can do is give it your best shot.

Life is a bunch of ups and downs. It's how you handle it.

Positive things come out of even the most difficult times.

I love my flops. Look at my life: my failure that broke my heart made me stronger.

I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.

Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Sometimes life has a way of putting us on our backs to force us to look up.

It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.