Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

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

You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

What I love most about reading: It gives you the ability to reach higher ground. And keep climbing.

So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.

Everything happens for a reason, even when we are not wise enough to see it. When there is no struggle, there is no strength.

The best of times is now.

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you - always.

I've learned not to worry about what might come next.

I don't believe in failure. It's not failure if you enjoy the process.

I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn't been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn't have been lucky.

I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.

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.

You teach people how to treat you.

I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.

What God intended for you goes far beyond anything you can imagine.

We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.

Life is about becoming more of who you really are....

My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.

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

You face the biggest challenge of all: to have the courage to seek your big dream regardless of what anyone says. You are the only person alive who can see your big picture and even you can't see it all.