Quotes from Oprah Winfrey

Life is the pitcher and we're missing the pitcher when we're so focused on that one element. It doesn't matter if your glass is half-full or half-empty if there's a pitcher of water right next to you. And we need to look at the full picture to see the full pitcher.

For me, poetry is the unexpected utterance of the soul. It is where the soul touches the everyday. It is less about words and more about awakening the sense of aliveness we carry within us from birth. To walk quietly till the miracle in everything speaks is poetry, whether we write it down or not.

I consider reading a book a sacred indulgence.

every experience is a valuable teacher.

I just knew that I wanted to attach myself to it. The best way for me to describe it is that something bloomed in my chest. I felt some sense of opening or wonder. I knew instinctively that the wilderness was the place that I felt most gathered.

My goal is to live my life as a more awakened, vibrant, alive human being. My prayer is to not let any moment pass without my acknowledgement and full experience of it. In order to do that, I've got to practice. — Oprah

Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness.

Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth." —Marianne Williamson

A child in an environment where they feel loved and safe will choose to leave their comfort zone. Safe and familiar is boring; a safe and stable child is a curious child - they want to explore new things. A child who feel unsafe, however, won't want this. It's an essential rule of healthy development: A sense of safety and stability provides a foundation for healthy growth.

If you want to accomplish the goals of your life, you have to begin with the Spirit.

Our brain processes incoming sensory input from the bottom up, and if someone has a life with chaotic, uncontrollable, or extreme and prolonged stress, particularly early in life, they're more likely to act before thinking. Their cortex is not as active, and reactivity in the lower areas of the brain becomes more dominant.

every physical encounter has a metaphysical meaning.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life.

When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity.

Nunca mais farei nada, para ninguém, que não sinta vir do fundo do meu coração. Não irei a eventos, não farei ligações, não escreverei cartas, não patrocinarei nem participarei de nenhuma atividade que não faça ressoar em cada fibra do meu ser. Agirei sempre com a intenção de ser sincera comigo mesma.

You can't buy happiness, so why not grow your own? All you need is a piece of fertile ground (ypur beautiful mind) plus some hardy seeds of wisdom, creativity, and plain good sense.

If, the first two months of life, a child experienced high adversity with minimal relational buffering but was then put into a healthier environment for the next twelve years, their outcomes were worse than the outcomes of children who had low adversity and healthy relational connection in the first two months but then spent the next twelve years with high adversity

Everything that happened to you can be used to strengthen you, if you allow it, if you're open to it.

Step out of the history that is holding you back, Step into the new story you are willing to create.

Com o passar dos anos, aprendi a concentrar minha energia no presente, a ter plena consciência do que está acontecendo e não me preocupar com o que deveria ter acontecido, com o que está acontecendo de errado ou com o que pode vir em seguida.

You must feed your mind with reading material, thoughts, and ideas that open you to new possibilities

Torne-se a mudança que quer ver no mundo - esse é o meu lema de vida. Em vez de depreciar, edifique. Em vez de demolir, construa. Em vez de enganar, ilumine o caminho para que todos possamos chegar mais longe.

Maya Angelou once passed on to me: "I'm convinced that the negative has power—and if you allow it to perch in your house, in your mind, in your life, it can take you over," she said. "Those negative words climb into the woodwork, into the furniture, and the next thing you know, they're on your skin. A negative statement is poison.