Oprah Winfrey

Because this I know for sure: Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.

When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success. When you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour your highest self. When you let go of the secret, only then you live to your greatest potential.

there is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It is why you where born and how you become most truly alive

Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.

Forgiveness is about letting go of the past and not holding on to it.

You are responsible for your life. You cannot keep blaming others for the mistakes in your life. Life is really about getting on with life itself.

anyone will ride in a limo but a true friend will ride the bus when the limo breaks down.

You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.

Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.

You cannot be my friend and use the N- word around me. I feel strongly about it… I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree.

Know what sparks the light in you. Then use that light to illuminate the world.

I plan to approach my future as one of great promise.

Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life ask yourself What is my truest intention Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

You can only be as happy as your saddest child.

My approach to living with purpose has always been to create the life I want, one conscious decision at a time.

Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.

«The happiest people don't have the best of everything, they make the best of everything.»

There is a sacred calling on your life, and the question is: Will you spend your life flittering and fluttering about or take the time and really heed that call and create your own path to your highest good?...You cannot let other people define your life for you. You are the author of your own life...Real power is when you are doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing, the best it can be done. Authentic power. There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, "I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove." And nobody has to tell you, "You go, girl," because you know you're already gone.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you conentrate on what you don't have, you'll never, ever have enough!

We are each responsible for our own life-no other person can be.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.

Forgiveness is.... giving up the hope that you can change the past.

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.

All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.

Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

There is no fun than helping to make someone's dreams come true Especially when that person is ayoung person and who really want it and really dserve it.

Living in the moment brings you a sense of reverence for all of life’s blessings.

When the talk about my troubles was loudest, I did the thing I've always spoken of most . I got still and listened for the answer to What is this here to teach me? The answer, first and foremost? Lay your ego down. Step out of your ego so you can recognize the truth. As soon as I did that, I was able to see the role I had played in creating "my circumstances," without blaming other people. And -- bingo! -- I realized that all the noise about my struggle was a reflection of my personal angst and fear.