I wasn’t ready for fame and all that brings to your life. It was an amazing experience, but so overwhelming, because no one can tell you beforehand when it will happen or how it will impact you. So no one can tell you how to handle it, being stopped everywhere you go because people saw you on ‘Oprah.’ It took me over, and I wasn’t ready. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
I try not to set myself up as different or as a celebrity or special. I have a husband that can get on my nerves. I have kids that test my patience. I’ve got a cat I can’t keep off the sofa. It’s real. On a bad day, I’m reading ‘Acts of Faith.’ Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
Sometimes we pray in our heads and we never get a real opportunity to solidify what it is that we’re praying for or what we’re praying about. So once you write it down, it’s like a flow. It comes out and you solidify the thought or the idea or the request. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
I don’t think there’s such a thing as a selfish prayer. Prayer puts you in communication so you can talk about whatever you want to talk about. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
I came from nothing. I came from the projects and welfare and ended up a millionaire with no frame of reference. I was bound to hit a wall sooner or later. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
I’m the person that I always was, but in terms of how I approach my living, I’m not the same person at all. At all. I’ve buried a child, I’ve ended a marriage, and the grandson that I was raising is now grown. My family has totally shifted. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
Everybody’s got a ‘thing.’ Some ‘things’ are nice and quiet. Some ‘things’ have fangs and claws. Some ‘things’ stink and have slobber everywhere. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
If you’re not willing to let your partner see your cellulite or know your biggest fears, then you aren’t really ready to share yourself. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
Be willing to share all of who you are. So many of us want a partner, but we’re not willing to show all of us. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
My father never kissed me, hugged me or told me that he loved me. As my only living parent, he became the filter through which I saw myself, the possibilities for my life, the world and all men. He was a conflicted and dark filter. Iyanla Vanzant Read Quote
