Iyanla Vanzant Quotes

I look for characters that speak to something in me.

What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me.

Begin within. If it shows up in your life, it's coming to tell you something about you that you're acting like you don't know. Something about yourself, or your relationship with God.

If you cannot find the truth within yourself, where else do you expect to find it?

Study what thou art Whereof thou art a part What thou knowest of this art This is really what thou art. All that is without thee also is within.

That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

Whatever you perceive, you always make a story with yourself as the main character, and that dictates your life. Then when you read 'The Four Agreements', you hear another voice beneath the story, the voice that comes from your integrity, your spirit.

Nothing said to us, nothing we can learn from others, reaches us so deep as that which we find in ourselves.

At the end of the day, you know yourself best.

Generally, if I read something that I think is really good and that I feel a connection with and is right for me, I see and hear who the guy is, as manifested by me.

Your life is a mirror. Life gives us not what we want. Life gives us who we are

Understanding the materials I work with... gives me a deeper understanding of my place. And it's helped me make sense of the changes that are happening to me as I grow older.

It's okay to ask questions, but get the answers. So, where are the answers? Since the questions came from within you, guess where the answers are? Within you.

Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to questions that only your inmost feeling in your most hushed hour can perhaps answer.

Know thyself, for through thyself only thou canst know God.

He who looks without, dreams; he who looks within, awakes.

Self knowledge puts us on our knees, and it is very necessary for love. For knowledge of God gives love, and knowledge of self gives humility

What we take from the spirit world is only a reflection of what lies inside ourselves.

The only advice I can give you is what you're telling yourself. Only, maybe you're too scared to listen.

After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge.

I do not wish you to act from these truths; no, still and always act from your feelings; only meditate often on these truths that sometime or other they may become your feelings.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

Knowing yourself has to always come from within. The outside can inspire or guide you, but knowing has to come from within you.