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Clarity, Forgiveness Key to Tackling Big Transitions

By Michel Martin, Iyanla Vanzant — 2014

The bestselling author and life coach has counseled hundreds of people through big life changes. Host Michel Martin asks Iyanla Vanzant for her advice on getting through transitions.

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You are never too old to set another goal, or to dream a new dream.

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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.

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It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for a bird to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

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Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man. . . . It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone.

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Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.

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Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good.

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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

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I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.

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