Oprah Winfrey
If you look at what you have in life, You'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, You'll never have enough.
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded or how much you have.
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.
Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. It is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment.
I do not think much of a man who does not know more today than he did yesterday.
Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
The gulf between god and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing god, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us.
What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Oh, yeah, woody ! I've known that guy my whole life: Two days.
Where there's life, there's hope.
What is a friend ? A single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
if you can't lift the corners, let the middle sag.
The best proof of love is trust.
Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open.
Efficiency is doing things right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Obstacles are great incentives.
They alone live, who live for others.
This world will always continue to be a mixture of good and evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to love even the wrongdoer.
We are what our thoughts have made us, so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live, they travel far.
She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older - the natural sequence of an unnatural beginning.
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right ?
A real decision is measured by the fact that you've taken a new action. If there's no action, you have n't truly decided.
I am your number one fan.
The loving are the daring.
If you mean to profit, learn to please.
Mightier far than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway of magic potent over sun and star, is love.
Between this fan and the fancy sunbrella, I'm one 16 inch waist away from Scarlett O'Hara !
Condemn none. If you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
How do I look ?
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
At every moment during our existence we are all called to be leaders, if for no other purpose than to lead ourselves.
Success often comes to those who dare to act. It seldom goes to the timid who are ever afraid of the consequences.
The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and god will be in them.
Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.
It's not what happens to you, it's what you do about it that makes the difference.
Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Don't go through life, grow through life.
I have noticed that folks are generally about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
To solve a problem or to reach a goal, you don't need to know all the answers in advance. But you must have a clear idea of the problem or the goal you want to reach.
My heart is ever at your service.
Don't bunt. Aim out of the ballpark.
An obstacle is often a stepping stone.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
A strong person and a waterfall always channel their own path.
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Leave the gun. Take the cannolis.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconscious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character
Truth is nobody's property, no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls.
When I hear somebody sigh, life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, compared to what ?
Love isn't blind, it just only sees what matters.
Life must be lived on a higher plane. We must go up to a higher platform, to which we are always invited to ascend, there, the whole aspect of things changes.
You must think of failure and defeat as the spring boards to new achievements, and to the next level of accomplishment.
In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.
The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to my fellow-creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. I can take it in small doses, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.
If you know peace, then you thrive , if you know contentment, then you are rich.
Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
The best way out is always through.
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.
Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.
The stakes are too high for government to be a spectator sport.
A chain is as strong as its weakest link.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow , Learn as if you were to live forever.
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Ill can he rule the great that cannot reach the small.
Pay the farmer or pay the hospital.
What's meant to be will always find a way
No pain, No gain.
True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing.
God is present in every jiva, there is no other god besides that. Who serves jiva serves god indeed.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
I am resolved that I will not through my humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
, Nobel Peace Prize winner We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
Shri Ramakrishna used to say, "As long as I live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death. Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of goodness and love.
The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us.
He who has learned how to obey will know how to command.
They will rise highest who strive for the highest place.
Find out what it means to die - not physically, that's inevitable - but to die to everything that is known, to die to your family, to your attachments, to all the things that you have accumulated, the known, the known pleasures, the known fears. Die to that every minute and you will see what it means to die so that the mind is made fresh, young, and therefore innocent, so that there is incarnation not in a next life, but the next day.
If you can't do it today, what makes you think you can do it tomorrow.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality, the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
The course of true love never did run smooth.
Where old age is evil, youth can learn no good.
Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.