Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

To change, to convert? Why bother?

To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.

What's interesting to me is the distinction between my old life and my present life.

The hardest thing in life to do is to change.

'Change' is seen as a dirty word, but personally, I'm searching for it.

Any time there's significant change, there's going to be some people who embrace the change and others who are against the change.

Trust me, you can't change anything without causing some degree of disruption. It's impossible, that is exactly what change is. Some people are uncomfortable with the disruption that change causes, but the disruption is necessary if anything is going to change.

On all levels, evolution occurs in response to a crisis situation, not infrequently a life-threatening one, when the old structures, inner or outer, are breaking down or are not working anymore. On a personal level, this often means the experience of loss of one kind or another: the death of a loved one, the end of a close relationship, loss of possessions, your home, status, or a breakdown of the external structures of your life that provided a sense of security.

Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

. . . escape is easier than change.

Do not resist events that move you out of your comfort zone, especially when your comfort zone was not all that comfortable.

We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of inertia and the irksomeness of action.

It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.

there is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

People say to you, 'you've changed', or something like that, well, I hope, for the sake of God, that you have changed, because I don't want to be the same person all my life. I want to be growing, I want to be expanding. I want to be changing. Because animate things change, inanimate things don&'t change. Dead things don't change. And the heart should be alive, it should be changing, it should be moving, it should be growing, its knowledge should be expanding.

I was once more in a time which the things around me were changing and that is how I wanted it to be for the rest of my days.

We cannot change anything unless we accept it.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

To change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one's mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.

Sometimes, pushing against change only makes it push back twice as hard. But even the most bitter fruit may contain something sweet at its core. A taste you would never have encountered if you had not been willing to endure the bitter first.

Does a man shrink from change? Why, what can come into being save by change?

He who rejects change is the architect of decay.

Just because you start out as one thing, it doesn't mean you can't grow into something else.

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.