Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind.

The way I stand up to bullies is with kindness and love. Because I think that's what they really need. They're misunderstood and probably really upset themselves.

For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion.

I believe much trouble would be saved if we opened our hearts more.

Compassion is the key to living outside the confines of your lower self.

Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.

If someone is misrepresenting my playing career, I try to correct them. If they say something mean about me I'll let them know it hurts my feelings. But I've noticed that the best thing for me is to show love back to them and show positivity and by doing that you gain a fan.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Hate cannot overcome hate; only love can do that.

We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us or even how they treat people we care for. There has to be a chance that we can find love.

To love is human, it is also human to forgive.

The next time someone is critical of you, just take a moment to consider their life. Then smile to yourself.

Never, never is it possible to reach someone if you become angry or bitter only love and gentleness can do it. Maybe not this time but maybe the next or the hundredth time.

What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

It's much easier to be at peace than it is to hate somebody. It's much easier to love somebody than to fight with them.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined as concern for others, is both the source and the fruit of these qualities, then the more we are compassionate, the more we provide for our own happiness.

The real essentials of life - compassion, kindness, good will, forgiveness - are what is fundamental to living as a true human being.

Hatred is never ended by hatred but by love.

Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.

At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.

I just don't know that shame and fear need to be our teachers; rather, compassion, understanding, and love should be our guides.

The way of peace is the way of love. Love is the greatest power on earth. It conquers all things.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.