What I Know For Sure

by Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.

I know for sure that a meal that brings you real joy will do you more good in the long and short term than a lot of filler food that leaves you standing in your kitchen, roaming from cabinet to fridge.

trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now.

You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive.

The problems that make you want to throw up your hands and holler “Mercy!” will build your tenacity, courage, discipline, and determination.

we all need the kind of relationships that enrich and sustain us. But it’s also true that if you’re looking for someone to heal and complete you—to shush that voice inside you that has always whispered You’re not worth anything—you are wasting your time.

You, alone, make a whole person. And if you feel incomplete, you alone must fill all your empty, shattered spaces with love. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

To know that people care about how you’re doing when the doing isn’t so good—that’s what love is. I feel blessed to know this for sure.

what you focus on expands. When you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.

The way to your best life isn’t denial. It’s owning every moment and staking a claim to the here and now.

it is your fear that has the power. The thing itself cannot touch you. But your fear can rob you of your life. Each time you give in to it, you lose strength, while your fear gains it.

With every experience, you build your life, thought by thought, choice by choice. And beneath each of those thoughts and choices lies your deepest intention.

If you can get paid for doing what you love, every paycheck is a bonus.

the big miracles we’re waiting on are happening right in front of us, at every moment, with every breath. Open your eyes and heart and you’ll begin to see them.

When you nurture and support your body, it reciprocates. The basis of that support is exercise, like it or not. The most essential benefit is more energy; weight control is a bonus.

we dwell on is who we become—as a woman thinks, so she is.