Oprah Winfrey Quotes

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Gratitude helps us stop trying to control outcomes. It is the key that unlocks positive energy in our life. It is the alchemy that turns problems into blessings, and the unexpected into gifts.

Whatever you accept completely will take you to peace, including the acceptance that you cannot accept, that you are in resistance.

Acceptance is the embracing of what happens. Acceptance is a way of getting in touch with the deeper, timeless dimension of aware presence, simply through accepting that this is what is happening or this is what I am feeling or thinking.

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything.

If we can remain present and deal with the moment in front of us, no matter what our battle, then if we lose, we'll know that ultimately we weren't supposed to win that battle in the first place.

I'm in a space of surrendering and being open and seeing. It's a good place to be - the only place to be.

One of the things I noticed in my career that gave me a lot of happiness early on was realising we don't have any control.

The key is to be Zen-like and be happy with what one has.

It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.

When I look for happiness, I lose it. When I stop looking, and surrender to where I am, I find it.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Joyful let the soul be in the present, let it disdain to trouble about what is beyond and temper bitterness with a laugh. Nothing is blessed forever.

Let-go means no competition, no struggle, no fight... just relaxing with existence, wherever it leads. Not trying to control your future, not trying to control consequences, but allowing them to happen... not even thinking about them. Let-go is in the present; consequences are tomorrow. And let-go is such a delightful experience, a total relaxation, a deep synchronicity with existence

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen.

The secret of awakening is to unconditionally accept this moment as it is.

Just pausing for two to three breaths is a perfect way to stay present. This is a good use of our life. Indeed, it is an excellent, joyful use of our life. Instead of getting better and better at avoiding, we can learn to accept the present moment as if we had invited it, and work with it instead of against it, making it our ally rather than our enemy.

When you surrender to what is and so become fully present, the past ceases to have any power. You do not need it anymore. Presence is the key. Now is the key.

Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.

Surrender is the inner transition from resistance to acceptance, from no to yes.

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.

Being present means living without control and always having your needs met.

Yet never resist anything. If you think that by your resistance you will eliminate it, think again. You only plant it more firmly in place. Have I not told you all thought is creative?