Oprah Winfrey

I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.

The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.

I think that when you invite people to your home, you invite them to yourself.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

What I find powerful is a person withthe confidence to be her own self.

Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.

I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call.

It isn't until you come to a spiritual understanding of who you are - not necessarily a religious feeling, but deep down, the spirit within - that you can begin to take control.

Every action, thought and feeling is motivated by an intention, and that intention is a cause that exists as one with an effect. If we participate in the cause, it is not possible for us not to participate in the effect. In this most profound way, we are held responsible for our every action, thought, and feeling which is to say, for our every intention_it is therefore, wise for us to become aware of the many intentions that inform our experience, to sort out which intentions produce which effects, and to choose our intentions according to the effects that we desire to produce.

I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

Your calling isn__ something that somebody can tell you about. It__ what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

When I didn't have friends, I had books.

True forgiveness is when you can say, 'Thank you for that experience.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

All pain is the same.