Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

The moment we begin to celebrate ourselves and focus on our successes is the moment we begin living.

Today, I will focus on what's right about me. I will give myself some of the caring I've extended to the world.

You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.

Accept yourself. Love yourself just as you are. Your finest work, your best moments, your joy, peace, and healing come when you love yourself. You give a great gift to the world when you do that. You give others permission to do the same: to love themselves. Revel in self love. Roll in it. Bask in it, as you would the sunshine.

You may have made a lot of wrong choices, but you’ve also made a lot of choices that were right. Focus on your good qualities. Focus on your victories. Get off the treadmill of guilt.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Love yourself first and the rest of your life will fall into place.

If we really love ourselves, everything in our life works.

Today, I will focus on having a good relationship with myself.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

Love yourself and you can heal your life.

She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever.

I try to teach people that I believe God wants us to be positive toward ourselves, meaning that, you know what, I like the way I look, I like the way I sound, I'm happy with what I'm doing in my career - and not always be beating ourselves down.

We can stop picking on ourselves for picking on ourselvesWe can cherish ourselves and our lives. We can nuture ourselves and love ourselves. We can accept our wonderful selves, with all our faults, foibles, strong points, weak points, feelings, thoughts, and everything else. It's the best thing we've got going for us. It's who we are, and who we were meant to be. And it's not a mistake. We are the greatest thing that will ever happen to us. Believe it. It makes life much easier.

Everyone is always looking for their beloved. Well, why can't you be your own beloved? Fall in love with yourself.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

The relationship that counts most in my life is the one I have with myself. I have a great, great, great relationship with myself, and it gets better and better as I get older. The other day, I was talking to Barry in the car and I said, 'I'm so glad I'm me!'

Loving ourselves is the miracle cure we are all looking for.

No one can give you anything-love, shame, self-esteem- until you give it to yourself. Today, give yourself good things.

Certainly, we all have within us the potential to live in a hugely different way. And how happy you can make yourself, I think, a lot depends on how much you beat yourself up about that; and how much you can, in some sort of providential way, console yourself and say, 'Well, it's all worked out for the best, in the best of all possible worlds.'

One way to feel good about yourself is to love yourself... to take care of yourself.

I want to love myself and love my life.

You cannot change who you are, so don't punish yourself for your shortcomings. Know who you are, give it your best, and celebrate it.

Being diagnosed with cancer helped me identify all that was wrong in my life. It also helped me search for the solutions. I discovered self-love; I learned to prioritise myself over others and, most importantly, realised that I had to love myself first before somebody else loves me.