Oprah Winfrey

Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.

I’ve lived in this fame trip since 1986. I’ve found that unless you’re rooted in something bigger than fame, you start believing your own hype.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

I was once afraid of people saying ‘Who does she think she is?’ Now I have the courage to stand and say, ‘This is who I am.

Jealousy, jealousy, jealousy, jealousy get the best of me.

My demons are begging me to open up my mouth.

I’m only ever in two places – with you or on the way.

Trust. Above all, I ask for trust. You won’t know every thought that crosses my mind, but just know that they’re all for us.

Oh, we’ll be looking for sunlight, or the headlights, ’til our wide eyes burn blind.

To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

We don’t fall in love with people because they’re good people. We fall in love with people whose darkness we recognize. You can fall in love with a person for all of the right reasons, but that kind of love can still fall apart. But when you fall in love with a person because your monsters have found a home in them – that’s the kind of love that owns your skin and bones. Love, I am convinced, is found in the darkness. It is the candle in the night.

Provided that he only broke you into pieces, you still have it all, like a pizza in slices, every. bite, delicious. You may not feel whole, but you are no less because of a feeling.

I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

Loving him is like trying to hold onto an armful of balloons. Maybe I need someone to come along and pop them.

I don’t feel that no big stone should be put over my head, saying he did this, he did that. Unless there’s something that I really did do. I believe I’m just ordinary. And I’d like for people to think of me that way, as just a guy that tried. Wanted to be loved by other people because he loved people.

There is no remedy for love, but to love more.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

I never thought love could be so deep, so wide, so open, so full, so elevating! Such a teacher! Thank you for teaching me, growing me, deepening me!!