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When I say to you, sister-woman, 'You out of order', that isn't an attack on you. I know what I'm looking at. I'm looking at your life, and I see what's there.

Iyanla Vanzant

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Iyanla Vanzant
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 13
Motivational Speaker
Spiritual Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Rhonda Eva Harris
Sister
Attack
Looking
Woman
Order
Life
Parenting

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You have set standards for how you want to be treated and what you expect from yourself and for yourself.
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When we find ourselves in the same situation repeatedly as a result of our conditioned responses, we must stop and do a new thing. The situation may look different. The route we take there may be altogether different. The lesson we must learn does not change. Get honest! Pay attention! Change what you do to create a change for yourself!
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You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.
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Love people enough to tell them the truth and respect them enough to trust that they can handle it.
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I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later.
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I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.
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Everything you have done and been through is valuable and important. In order to be who you are, to know what you know, to be where you are in this moment, you needed to go through what you went through.
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The voice I had accepted as Divine Guidance was actually the voice of my ego leading me right into destruction.
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I have learned the hard way to mind my business, without judging who people are and what they do. I am more troubled by the lack of space being provided for the truth to unfold. Humans cannot seem to wait for or honor the truth. Instead, we make it up based on who we believe people should or should not be.
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What is it that would make a creature as fierce, majestic and powerful as a lion is, subject itself to the intimidation of a man a whip and a chair? The lion has been taught to forget what it is.
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You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.
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Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.
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If you see crazy coming, cross the street!
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The only way to get what you really want is to let go of what you don't want.
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Parents are teachers, guides, leaders, protectors and providers for their children.
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Everyone has something that blocks us from the full experience and expression of our nobility.
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Some children do what they’re told to do some children do what they’re told not to do all children do what they’re parents have done.
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You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!
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The only relationship we can have in this life is the relationship we have with ourselves. We cannot love anybody more than we love ourselves. We cannot treat anyone any better than we treat ourselves. When you forget you, give up on you, or devalue yourself, anyone coming into your life has a universal responsibility to follow your lead.
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When we pray, it opens our minds to the divine consciousness of God. Prayer opens your mind to answers that have always been present.
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