Oprah Winfrey
If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conqueredCollection: Inspirational
I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.Collection: Witty
Joy is a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace - a connection to what matters.Collection: Happiness
I know for sure that's what we're here to do: Keep the joy thing going for all seasons.Collection: Joy
What we all desire is the fullest, highest expression of ourselves.Collection: Expression
I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives.Collection: People
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.Collection: Giving
What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves.Collection: People
You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.Collection: Past
Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.Collection: Heart
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.Collection: Distance
Now that I have all the things I once thought would make me happy, they have little meaning for me. Experience, and not just a little heartache, has taught me money buys convenience and conveniences.Collection: Heartache
Tithe in kind where your spirit is fed.Collection: Life
If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you.Collection: Crazy
I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.Collection: Mothers Day
A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.Collection: Perfection
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out.Collection: Regret
The only thing that can free you is the belief that you can be free.Collection: Freedom
[People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call "God," it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that.Collection: Heart
I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."Collection: Girl
That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.Collection: Inspirational
One of my theories about life is that we become what we believe.Collection: Believe
I pray to be used in service to a greater purpose higher than my ownCollection: Purpose
I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.Collection: Heart
Everything in your life right now is a possible episode.Collection: Episodes
Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.Collection: Believe
I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.Collection: Thinking
Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.Collection: Things In Life
No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.Collection: Life
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.Collection: Aging
I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...Collection: Strong
What would I do if I wasn't afraid?Collection: Ifs
To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other.Collection: Feet
I feel my greatest work is yet to come.Collection: Feels
You've got to figure out what it is you love - who you really are - and have the courage to do that.Collection: Motivational
You can take from every experience what it has to offer you. And you cannot be defeated if you just keep taking one breath followed by another.Collection: Motivational
I am guided by the vision of what I believe this show can be. Originally our goal was to uplift, enlighten, encourage and entertain through the medium of television. Now, our mission statement for The Oprah Winfrey Show is to use television to transform people's lives, to make viewers see themselves differently and to bring happiness and a sense of fulfillment into every home.Collection: Happiness
What has made me successful is the ability to surrender my plans, dreams and goals to a power that's greater than other people and greater than myself.Collection: Dream
You know that old joke about the guy who lives to be 104? The punch line goes something like 'If I knew I was gonna get this old, I'd have taken much better care of myself.' Well, guess what? We actually are living longer, and the time to start taking care of ourselves is right this minute.Collection: Taken
If you take care of your body, it'll take care of you.Collection: Body
I wasn't the cutest or the most talented, but I could get through the question-and-answer period.Collection: Questions And Answers
God can dream a better dream for you than you can!Collection: Dream
You did the best you could, the best you knew how at the time." It was something like that. From Oprah on an Oprah show. Then I believe my quote above was from Maya Angelou on the Oprah show, not Oprah herself. I had heard it before but it was on Oprah's show again 1-7-09 and she said Maya had said it.Collection: Believe
There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.Collection: Imagination
The chance to love and be loved exists no matter who or where you are.Collection: Love
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around youCollection: Love
Just being born makes you worthy enough to be hereCollection: Love
If things go wrong and you hit a dead end-as you will-it's just life's way of saying it's time to change courseCollection: Love
I don't think there's anything better you can do in this world than bring light wherever you go.Collection: Thinking