Oprah Winfrey Quotes

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

I intend to live life, not just exist.

I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life.

Everything changes when you make a decision to be one of the courageous ones, someone who chooses to make a life, rather than a living.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of a hoped-for hereafter, and make every day count in some meaningful way and do something-no matter how small it is-to make the world a better place.

I happen to believe the world will change only when we change ourselves. And that starts with finding ourselves: learning to quiet the clamor in our minds and the voices of everyone around us and move toward what feels right – toward the things we know, for reasons we can’t explain, that we’re mean to do, the things that makes us feel alive.

We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

Learning how to live is much more important than learning how to make a living.

A good life is a main argument.

The man who consecrates his hours by vigorous effort, and an honest aim, at once he draws the sting of life and Death; he walks with nature; and her paths are peace.

True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.

Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.

Optimism is invaluable for the meaningful life. With a firm belief in a positive future, you can throw yourself into the service of that which is larger than you are.

If a man can reach the latter days of his life with his soul intact, he has mastered life.

At the end of our life our questions are simple: Did I live fully? Did I love well?

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

For the first time in my life I actually feel sorry for Carol. I'm only seventeen years old, and I already know something she doesn't know: I know that life isn't life if you just float through it. I know that the whole point- the only point- is to find things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.

If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful.

There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

Honestly, being a part of any worthy life story is a goal of mine.

Life is so short. Why waste a single day of it doing something that doesn't matter, that doesn't try to do something big?

Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming, you have the Swiss Army Knife of mental tools, and it's going to come in handy all the time.