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With all things in life, we do not get what we ask for, we get what we expect.

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
Life
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My grandma always said, Trouble is what God uses to prepare you for better things! If you have trouble in your life, you are in a valley. If you are in a valley, you are being prepared for something bigger, better, greater something you probably could not handle now.
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Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
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As we learn to see each other through our spiritual eyes, the physical differences will cease to matter.
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Sitting alone, listening to the sound of your breath, the beating of your heart is a reminder that you are sacred and blessed.
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What a blessing that God allows a life to come through your body, and then allows you to place that body in a body bag and take it out. I had to say that there's a magnificent something that God has for me to do, to give me that level of completion. That level of experience. It's unspeakable.
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When you give to others to the degree that you sacrifice yourself, you make the other person a thief.
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A man can't be in the space where there is feminine rage and bitterness. He doesn't know how to navigate it.
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In all relationships, regardless of their nature, there comes that moment when you understand that there are some things you will never understand. When you are standing in that moment, just be right with it.
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You are not being tested! You are being fortified! Remember, you cannot fail!
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Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.
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WE [black women] HAVE ADAPTED TO A SOCIETY THAT DOES'NT HONOR US.
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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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Spirituality is a journey inward that connects the Self to yourself. When you know who you are from the inside out, when you do what you sense is right for you, when your thoughts lead you to actions that serve others as well as make you feel good, then you have encountered spirituality.
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Everybody's got a 'thing.' Some 'things' are nice and quiet. Some 'things' have fangs and claws. Some 'things' stink and have slobber everywhere.
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Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency
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Spiritual consciousness does not make your problems go away it does, however, help you view them from a different vantage point.
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Choice is a divine teacher, for when we choose we learn that nothing is ever put in our path without a reason.
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In order to feel loved, be respected and stay connected, we humans have a tendency to lie. We lie about who we are, what we want, what we need, what we have done or will do. Perhaps 'lie' is too strong a word. Let me say that what we do is withhold the truth.
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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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You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.
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