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Iyanla Vanzant Quotes about Pain

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No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness.

No matter what is going on in your life today, remember, it is only preparation. People come and go; situations rise and fall; it's all preparation for better things. You must stretch, reach, grow into your goodness. Without the preparation we receive through adversity, disappointment, confusion, or pain, we could not appreciate the goodness when it arrives.

Pain, Disappointment, Fall

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 04, 2016

Forgiveness is a process of giving up the old for something new. Old experiences and memories that we hold on to in anger, resentment, shame, or guilt cloud our spirit mind. The truth is, everything that has happened had to happen. It was a growth experience. There was something you needed to know or learn. If you stay angry, hurt, afraid, ashamed, or guilty, you miss the lesson. You will be stuck in a cloud of pain.

Hurt, Giving Up, Pain

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Apr 15, 2015

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Sex, Pain, Memories

When you can tell the story and it doesn't bring up any pain, you know it is healed.

Pain, Fear, Stories

Iyanla Vanzant (2010). “Peace from Broken Pieces: How to Get Through What You're Going Through”, p.137, Hay House, Inc

All of us have ways in which we mask and cover our pain.

Pain, Way, Mask

Most of us know exactly what it is that creates the pain, confusion, stagnation and disruption in our lives. When we find something or someone creating in our lives that which we do not want, we must muster the courage and strength to stop it.

Pain, Creating, Confusion

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Aug 03, 2016

What do you do when it seems as if people want to stay in their pain. They have a story to tell and they tell you every chance they get. Well, believe it or not, they may like where they are. Our job is to leave them there. You can point the way out of pain, but you cannot force them to get out. You can support the move beyond their limitations, but you cannot make the move for them.

Jobs, Pain, Get Well

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 29, 2015

Why do we hold onto negativity? For some reason, we believe that others are affected by our experience of remaining upset, hurt or angry. Holding on to pain, anger, guilt or shame is the glue that binds us to the situation we want to escape.

Hurt, Pain, Believe

FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Dec 06, 2016

Who you are is strong enough to bare your pain

Strong, Pain, Enough

You can't just cry about the pain. You can't just pray about the pain. You must eliminate the pain.

Pain, Praying, Cry

Twitter post from Aug 3, 2013

As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.

Teacher, Pain, Home

Source: www.pbs.org

You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

Pain, Memories, Past

Pain is pain, hurt is hurt, fear is fear, anger is anger, and it has no color.

Hurt, Pain, Color

"Move Over Oprah, It's Iyanla". abcnews.go.com. August 10.

One of the ways that people avoid taking responsibility for their role in their own pain is what I call the BPs - blame and projection.

Pain, Responsibility, People

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

Pain, Loss, Greatest Fear

"How Spiritual Leaders Get Through What They’re Going Through: Lie or Leave" by Iyanla Vanzant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 11, 2010.

Until you make peace with your difficult memories, that pain will continue to bleed into your current and future experiences.

Pain, Memories, Currents

When we want to move beyond the pain, when we want to feel better, when we are ready to move beyond where we are, emotionally and spiritually, we must forgive.

Pain, Moving, Feel Better

Iyanla Vanzant (2002). “Value in the Valley: A Black Woman's Guide through Life's Dilemmas”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

Pain, Want, Sides

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