Favourite quotes : #5

Quotes below are from Oprah Winfrey: The Wisdom of Sundays

The number one principle that rules my life is intention. Thought by though, choice by choice, we are co-creating our lives based on the energy of our intention.- Oprah

The energy we put out in the world is the energy we get back. If you want more love in your life, set your intention to be more loving. If you seek kindness, focus your energy on empathy and compassion. - Oprah

Dare greatly means the courage to be vulnerable. It means to show up and be seen. To ask for what you need. To talk about how you are feeling. To have the hard conversations.  - Brene Brown

All I think that vulnerability is the cornerstone of confidence. Because you have to allow yourself to take the risk to be open, to live as wholehearted person. When you can do that, you recognize that you're really just like everybody else, and that gives you the confidence to be yourself, which is all you really need in life, to be more of yourself.

What I realised is that sometimes we, in the most difficult times in our story, we begin to lose faith. - Devon Franklin

I try to live my life knowing that if you can see it and you can feel it and you believe it, then it is completely possible. - Amy Purdy

There are so many simple pleasures that allow me to delight in the present moment. A long walk in solitude or a spirited hike with friends brings a renewed sense of gratitude and connection. I consider reading a book a sacred indulgence. And I also happen to love a cup of piping-hot Masala tea. The daily ritual of being at the sink, boiling the water, steaming the milk, and then steeping the tea helps bring me to a place of stillness. Whether it's watching a sunset, or really feeling the stream of water hit your face in the shower, everyone needs to take time to find a way to quiet themselves. -Oprah

The true power of staying in the now means that you resist projecting what might happen in the future or lamenting past mistakes. There will always be times of stress of sadness, but when you feel the earth moving, that's the time to bring yourself back to center. Whatever shakeup or disturbance that might come, you will handle that when it actually happens. But in this moment, you are still breathing. In this moment, you are finding a way to step onto higher ground. - Oprah

We go from being twenty to thirty without a pause. We go from one job to the next, from one bed to the next. For every one, pause. Take a breath. Pause. - Iyanla Vanzant

Connect to yourself becomes a spiritual experience because you have realized you are causing the vast majority of your own problems, due to your mental reactions. So as life unfolds on a daily basis, you have the right to choose not to do that. You can still go to work, you still take care of the kids, you just lean away from this mess that the mind is doing to amplify and overemphasize or over exaggerate whatever is going on. What will happen is when you let go of the noisy mind, you will end up in a seat of quiet, because that's what it is back there: quiet. And my experience is that now you can look at reality and you will know what to do. - Michael Singer

You recognise the situation and help yourself not to be overwhelmed by the negative feeling like fear or anxiety. You are still yourself. It is like a mother: when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognise the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness and concentration, you understand the roots, the nature of that ill-being, and you know the way to transform it. - Thich Nhat Hanh

No matter how devastating, these are opportunities to stop sleepwalking through your life, wake up, and pay attention to the red flags, whispers, pebbles and bricks along the way. Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom unfolds. - Oprah

And I never knew at that age, in my twenties, that “I don’t know” is actually a legimate answer that you are allowed to say. You are allowed to say, “I don’t know,” and you are allowed to ask for as much time as you need until you do know. And if somebody doesn’t want to give you that time, they are allowed to leave. But you are allowed to sit with your “I don’t know.” - Elizabeth Gilbert

Ego is an imposter, imposing on the real you, making you think you are something that you are not. True self-esteem is realising that the stillness and presence in me is the same as the presence in all people. - Oprah

“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could be any different. - Dr. Gerald G. Jampolsky