What I Know For Sure

by Oprah Winfrey

hope you aren’t so wrapped up in nonessential stuff that you forget to really enjoy yourself—

It doesn’t take a lot to make me happy because I find satisfaction in so much of what I do.

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.

Life is full of delightful treasures, if we take a moment to appreciate them.

The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you will die, you must live now.

Dawwwww

I know for sure that I don’t want to live a shut-down life—desensitized to feeling and seeing. I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible. On experiencing joy on every level.

Everything I do all day, I do in preparation for my reading time. Give me a great novel or memoir, some tea, and a cozy spot to curl up in, and I’m in heaven.

Insight, information, knowledge, inspiration, power: All that and more can come through a good book.

TRUTH!!

remain connected to the world of spirit. Everything else will take care of itself—this I know for sure. And my number-one spiritual practice is trying to live in the present moment … to resist projecting into the future, or lamenting past mistakes … to feel the real power of now.

know for sure that healing the wounds of the past is one of the biggest and most worthwhile challenges of life.

Balance lives in the present. When you feel the earth moving, bring yourself back to the now.

When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.

And being open to learning from those challenges is the difference between succeeding and getting stuck.

I marvel at my own sense of calm now.

Look inward—the loving begins with you.

SWE and GWC

involve bringing all of who you are to the table—and walking away with even more.

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.

awwww so true

the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we’ve loved others and whether they’ve loved us.

you are most in need of what gratitude can give you: perspective.

I know for sure that only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.