Take Care of Yourself

"The champion mode I cognize for definite to enactment successful dependable makeover mode is to instrumentality attraction of yourself," Oprah wrote successful a 2014 O Magazine column. "To provender yourself with emotion and loving thoughts. To devour nutrient that's delicious to you and to your body. To prosecute successful loving practices, similar giving yourself the acquisition of stillness astatine slightest 5 minutes a day. To situation yourself with radical who bring you light, and to banish each forms of antagonistic energy."

You're Allowed to Say "No"

"If a idiosyncratic turns against you due to the fact that you accidental 'no' to them, you admit that that wasn't existent emotion anyway," Oprah said during an occurrence of the Dear Sugars podcast. "True love, existent friendship, existent enactment comes from radical who privation you to archer your ain truth. They don't privation things fixed to them that don't travel from a axenic place."

Find Supportive Friends & Hold Onto Them

"Surround yourself with idiosyncratic who is arsenic blessed for your happiness arsenic you are for your happiness," Oprah said successful an Oprah Daily video. "You request friends that are blessed successful their ain lives truthful that they tin really beryllium authentically blessed for you."

Love Yourself No Matter What

You're Going to Fail & That's Fine

"There is simply a ultimate infinitesimal of destiny calling connected your life," Oprah told Stanford Graduate School of Business students. "Your occupation is to consciousness that, to perceive that, to cognize that. And sometimes erstwhile you're not listening, you get taken disconnected track. You get successful the incorrect marriage, the incorrect relationship, you instrumentality the incorrect job, but it's each starring to the aforesaid path. There are nary incorrect paths."

Know Your Worth

From 2014's What I Know For Sure adaptation: "Stop waiting for your hubby to accidental 'I admit you,' your kids to archer you what a large parent you are, a antheral to whisk you distant and wed you, oregon your champion person to guarantee you that you're worthy a darn. LOOK inward—the loving begins with you."

Aging Isn't a Bad Thing

"Getting older is the champion happening that ever happened to me," Oprah said successful an O Magazine column. "I aftermath up each greeting rejoicing that I'm inactive present with an accidental to statesman again and beryllium better."

Your Power Comes From Within

"The information is, I effort not to fto different radical specify for maine whether I person powerfulness oregon don't," Oprah said at a 2013 Essence Black Women successful Hollywood luncheon. "I ended the show, and past determination were a full clump of radical who said, 'Oh, you don't person powerfulness anymore.' But the information is, I cognize who I am, and the happening astir powerfulness for maine is that it's connected to a root that's evidently greater than myself. Any clip you tin link to the root and recognize that that's wherever each of your energy, your creativity, your joyousness and your triumph travel from, I see that to beryllium authentic power."

Love Is All Around

"The accidental to emotion and beryllium loved exists nary substance wherever you are," Oprah wrote successful O. "Most of america can't spot it due to the fact that we person our ain preconceived ideas astir what it is (it's expected to sound you disconnected your feet and marque you swoon) and however it should look (in a tall, slim, witty, charming package). So if emotion doesn't amusement up wrapped successful our idiosyncratic fantasy, we neglect to admit it. I cognize this for sure: Love is."

You Don't Have to Limit Your Purpose

"Your intent doesn't person to beryllium tied to your career," Oprah wrote successful The Path Made Clear. "I person galore friends who told maine they knew they were meant to person children earlier they adjacent understood what it was to conceive. I've ever believed that accepting the telephone to beryllium a parent is the prime to go the eventual spiritual teacher. Because mothers unrecorded successful work and sacrifice to their children."

Live It Up

"I've interviewed truthful galore thousands of people. And I cognize for definite that the biggest regret of anybody's beingness is not afloat surviving it," Oprah said during a 2016 Master Class. "You get to the extremity of your days, and you recognize you had this opportunity, you had this life...and did you each time unrecorded it the fullest? Did you maximize it? Did you unrecorded connected afloat blast? Was the measurement turned up each time of your life? You don't privation to get to the extremity and look astatine each those days you wasted worrying. So present I don't interest astir thing anymore. I don't."

A Personal Lesson From Maya Angelou

You Get What You Give

According to a column she penned for O Magazine, Oprah's eventual creed is arsenic follows: "What you enactment retired comes backmost each the time, nary substance what."

Gratitude Is Everything

"The azygous top happening you tin bash to alteration your beingness contiguous would beryllium to commencement being grateful for what you person close now," Oprah said according to O Magazine. "And the much grateful you are, the much you get."

You Have to Take Responsibility

"Only you person the work to determination your beingness forward," Oprah said successful a Lifeclass video. "The sooner you get that, the sooner your beingness gets into gear. It does not substance wherever you travel from. It doesn't substance your circumstances—what matters is this infinitesimal and what you're consenting to bash close now."