Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

It's funny, the moment you dread the most, seeing yourself bald, is actually not such a bad moment at all.

Many times in life, we say we want change but are then terrified when the opportunity for it arrives.

Many people are so afraid of change.

I think change is always scary but also always good.

Anytime you’re gonna grow, you’re gonna lose something. You’re losing what you’re hanging onto to keep safe. You’re losing habits that you’re comfortable with, you’re losing familiarity.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

There is no growth without change, no change without fear or loss and no loss without pain.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

We have a normal. As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.

You can't really go back to where you came from. I don't think any of us can.

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.

Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

Good-byes are hard, but life is about changes.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

People are afraid of changing; that they're losing something. They don't understand that they are also gaining something.

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

It was painful, but sometimes you must have these painful moments where you tear yourself away from something that isn't working.

It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.

Change isn't easy…. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, …. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.