Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is 'Thank you,' it will be enough." —Meister Eckhart

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.

I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.

When you know better...You do better.

I will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. I don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen,but there have been no failures. There have been some tremendous lessons.

Life is about growth and change. When you are no longer doing that — that is your whisper; that is your whisper that you are supposed to do something else.

What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction

Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.