Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.

The most powerful place you can come from is just having a really deep knowing of who you are and what you want for yourself.

Long-term sustainable change happens if people discover their own power.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.

Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and love, and the lord of his own thoughts, he holds the key to every situation.

It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition.

The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked... that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

You hold the keys of change within you. You be the change you want to see.

Resolve and thou art free.

There are incalculable resources in the human spirit, once it has been set free.

I think operating in a mode of fear, and operating from a mode of fear, is not going to get us anywhere, as a people, or me, as a person. So I don't operate from that place.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

Next time I'll be braver, I'll be my own savior, Standing on my own two feet.

Self-knowledge is the great power by which we comprehend and control our lives

Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.

This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us.

You will always be a monster - there is no turning back from it. But what kind of monster you become is entirely up to you.

Feminine power isn't something we go out and acquire; it's already within us. It's something we become willing to experience. Something to admit we have

It doesn't matter what one reveals or what one keeps to oneself. Everything we do, everything we are, rests on our personal power. If we don't have enough personal power the most magnificent piece of wisdom can be revealed to us and it won't make a damn bit of difference.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

If man puts his honor first in relying upon himself, knowing himself and applying himself, this in self-reliance, self-assertion, and freedom, he then strives to rid himself of the ignorance which makes a strange impenetrable object a barrier and a hindrance to his self-knowledge.

I've put up with too much, too long, and now I'm just too intelligent, too powerful, too beautiful, too sure of who I am finally to deserve anything less.

You are free, you just don't know it" ~Michael to Sarah

You are not controlling the storm, and you are not lost in it. You are the storm.