Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

The one that I really call love is when I feel like everything's okay. That state of, it's all right here. I spent most of my adult life looking for romantic love. I've been in therapy since '87. What I learned was, that connection that I was looking for that I thought was really romantic love, my therapist literally said, "Well, when you feel that next, you probably shouldn't go towards that for a partner."

I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.

Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.

O beauty, are you not enough; why am I crying after love.

Love is not what you want, it is what you are. It is very important to not get these two confused. If you think that love is what you want, you will go searching for it all over the place. If you think love is what you are, you will go sharing it all over the place. The second approach will cause you to find what the searching will never reveal.

Self love is the instrument of our preservation.

The only two important things in life are real love and being at peace with yourself.

True self-love and social are the same.

Self-love is a principle of action; but among no class of human beings has nature so profusely distributed this principle of life and action as through the whole sensitive family of genius.

Love is never outside ourselves; love is within us.

We are all the best versions of ourselves when we have love and acceptance in our lives.

I do believe this: That what we call love is always available to us. And of course I'm not just talking about passion. I'm talking about love where you just can't conceive that your life isn't perfect, that you can't conceive of wanting anything.

When you do not require a person to show up as you imagine you need them to be, then you can drop expectation. Then you love them exactly as they are. Yet this can only happen when you love your Self exactly as you are

I've grown up a lot, I've experienced a lot, I'm in love, I'm super happy with who I am and comfortable in my own skin and that's definitely gonna be portrayed in the music and in the lyrics.

Be the love you seek.

Love your self's self where it lives.

Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.

Self-love is the starting point for everything.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

Every experience of love, bliss, belonging, inspiration, and insight provides a stepping stone back to your true self.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.