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If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.
Iyanla Vanzant
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Iyanla Vanzant
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: September 13
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Rhonda Eva Harris
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At your worst point, the quickest way to move through it is to be a contribution as opposed to focusing on your problems. If you focus on your problems and keep giving them attention, they're going to grow. If you ignore them and do something else - I don't mean act like they're not here - but do something meaningful, it helps you work through it.
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I knew all of the childhood prayers I uttered on my knees at the side of my bed. Many years of Sunday-school attendance had etched certain Psalms and rote prayers into the fibers of my brain. However, somewhere deep inside of me, I had the secret belief that I did not know how to pray, and that frightened me.
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I am not seeking anything but service to my creator. I do not need a house, I do not need a car, I do not need any of that, but to be present with each guest that sits across from me, and I am committed to a bigger thing than me, which is the vision of own, because own is going to outlive all of us.
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Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.
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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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We can think, speak, and bring the best possible outcome into existence by focusing on where we are going, not on where we think we are.
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I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.
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Forgive yourself for believing that youre anything less than beautiful.
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When you are open to receive what God is able to do for you, you stop doing. You learn how to Be still and know! You know that your good is on the way, according to God's nature and willingness to give. You also put your faith in the fact that God is always on time.
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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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When you don't show up as who you are, people fall in love with who you're not. Then when they find out who you are, that's when they leave.
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I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.
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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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To me, freedom means having the power, the inherent right, the capacity and the ability to make choices that honour who I am.
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If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.
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You must be willing to give total unconditional love to everyone, under all circumstances. That means being willing to be totally responsible for what you do and how you do it.
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