Oprah Winfrey Quotes

I love the very exposed, humorous, imperfect, never-trying to-pretend-to-be-perfect journey that I have been on in my life.

That's the way I try to live. I think it's the only way for human beings at this point in our evolution as souls, where everyone in their lifetime is going through stuff.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I'm just going to embrace every experience.

People talk about this 'bucket list': 'I need to go to this country, I need to skydive.' Whereas I need to think as much as I can, to feel as much as I can, to be conscious and observe and understand me and the people around me as much as I can.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

If you don't understand yourself you don't understand anybody else.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

I'm trying to learn how to tap into the power of my own being. I know it sounds corny.

Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit.

There's something very touching to me about someone almost communicating to themselves in some way - trying to come to some deeper understanding of yourself and having compassion for yourself.

If, through my own personal journey, I can inspire someone else to self-love, that would be the biggest accomplishment.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

Love yourself. KNOW thyself. And be mindful of your thoughts.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

It's all about knowing that everybody that you see, everybody that you sit across from is a different aspect of yourself. So once you can accept yourself on every level, that's when everything opens up, that's when the party really begins.

The spiritual journey has to do with learning to think more deeply and take as long a time as we need. That's the path to wisdom.

The secret is to learn to sit at the feet of your own life and be taught by it.

I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Whether you’re checked in or checked out, you’re always on a spiritual journey.

The journey into self-love and self-acceptance must begin with self-examination. ... until you take the journey of self-reflection, it is almost impossible to grow or learn in life.

When you do not know how to handle yourself, where is the need to produce another life.