Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.

If you change and adapt your persona, you are seen as inauthentic; if you stay the angry young man, you fade from attention or seem tiresome.

For a few moments, be aware of your potential for change. Whatever your present situation is, evolution and transformation are always possible. At the least, you can change your way of seeing things and then, gradually, your way of being as well.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

Anybody who does not evolve can become a self-parody. I have to evolve on a daily basis just to keep my own interest in what I do.

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

Don't get too comfortable with who you are at any given time - you may miss the opportunity to become who you want to be.

Half my life is an act of revision.

I'm a work in progress.

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don't be discouraged... just be willing to change.

As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.

People are generally forced to change. We don't want to change, and then something absolutely forces us to realize that what we are doing isn't working or that our picture of the world is wrong. We fail. So we change.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

I think I've changed a lot as a person.

I'm always changing. I still have the same morals and values and foundation of who I was, growing up in Jacksonville, FL, but I'm such a different person from who I was when I was 17. You live and you learn and you grow.

You do need to maintain some of yourself and know who you are, but that doesn't mean you can't evolve.

I wasn't enjoying golf much. I was kind of getting a little bit tired, I was getting a little bit moody, and I was constantly getting angry. That's not me. And when I saw that I knew I had to change.

The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.

I've learned that the perfect picture that I hold in my mind of what my life looks like is constantly changing, growing, evolving. I remind myself that I am exactly where I need to be in my life; otherwise, I would surely be somewhere else.

Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

We think we control our environment, but in fact, it's our environment that controls us. We can't change the world. The only thing we can change is ourselves, by trying to get a better understanding of our own messed-up wiring.

Success did change me. You don't want it to, but it does.

Supposedly I haven't changed.