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Iyanla Vanzant
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 13
Motivational Speaker
Spiritual Teacher
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Rhonda Eva Harris
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Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
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It is not what you hear, it is where you listen from within yourself that gives meaning to the message.
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Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency
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Prayer is asking for rain. Faith is carrying an umbrella. Faith is the inner sense of knowing that with divine order working on your side, all things will come together for your good. Faith is knowing that there is a divine plan and purpose for everything in life
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Use your time, energy and talents to do the best you can right now. Spend no time wishing it were better
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Change doesn't have to be hard, and healing doesn't have to hurt. Surely by now you know that every thing happens for a reason! There is something better awaiting you on the other side of this.
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Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we're not willing to show all of us.
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When you make a decision and a commitment to do something good for yourself, it is like dropping a pebble in a pond. It has a rippling effect. The firmer the decision, the stronger the frequency and wider the range of things that will be reached.
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Choice is our point of power.
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I now know that nothing in my life will change until I change the way I see my life and myself.
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The only thing that goes on in your life is what your allow to go on in your life
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I realized it was happening, but most people didn't realize it was happening. I mean, because as a self-employed person, when there is a recession or a cutback in the economy, we feel it first. Because many self-employed people provide services that are nonessential.
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You`re demonstrating a courage that most people can`t even fathom: giving it all away in order to have yourself
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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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I am not my sister's keeper. I am my sister.
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When do you feel most loved? Are you willing to be loved today? Self-love is the magnet that attracts deep and profound expressions of love from others
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Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.
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Speak and live in simple sentences. Bring closure -- put a period to -- those experiences that you don't want to carry on forever and ever. Use commas in those places where you're still growing... and use exclamation points at the end of every lesson.
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When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.
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In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.
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