After two days of uplifting speaker presentations at the Oprah The Life You Want Weekend in San Jose last month, there were countless quote worthy pieces of advice, inspiration and words of wisdom that echoed throughout the SAP Center. Here are 33 quotes to inspire us to rise up and step into the life we want from some of the most inspirational people of our time.
1. People just want to know that they matter. -- Oprah
2. What you put out is already on its way back to you. - -Oprah
3. You become what you believe. -- Oprah
4. You only have power in your energy field ... so the only way to live the life you want is in your energy field ... and your greatest power is love. -- Oprah
5. You have to choose love ... in the most difficult of time to shift the paradigm to that which is love. -- Oprah
6. If you are still breathing, you have a second chance. -- Oprah
7. Strength times strength times strength times strength times strength times strength means power. -- Oprah
8. Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience. -- Deepak Chopra
9. You are awareness disguised as a human being. -- Oprah
10. Look at the world as a reflection of your inner state. -- Deepak Chopra
11. The highest intention comes from love and compassion ... when our intentions come from a place of love and compassion then we have the power of the universe. -- Deepak Chopra
12. Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even. -- Deepak Chopra
13. You can stay on the path you want and suck it up and endure it ... or you can completely change your life... -- Elizabeth Gilbert
14. Change is all about motion, motion is all about uncertainty and we are deeply uncomfortable with uncertainty. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
15. The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ... -- Elizabeth Gilbert
16. There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
17. I believe in miracles, I believe in the Law of Attraction, but even I don't think I'm big enough to manifest five Asian elephants cloaked in gold... -- Elizabeth Gilbert
18. You never know how a good quest is going to end. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
19. The first word about you is that you received this life... -- Rob Bell
20. The life that you want begins the moment you embrace the life you have because all of it is a miracle. -- Rob Bell
21. It often takes suffering and lost in order to remind us of how precious life is. -- Rob Bell
22. One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions. -- Rob Bell
23. We often rush through the experiences that have the greatest shift. -- Rob Bell
24. The life you want begins by embracing the life you have. -- Rob Bell
25. If life were a book and I were the author, how would I want this story to go... -- Amy Purdy
26. Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness. -- Oprah
27. The way we do one thing is the way we do everything. -- Iyanla Vanzant
28. The way you get more is by having a daily spiritual practice. -- Iyanla Vanzant
29. Your eyes will adjust to the level of deficiency -- Iyanla Vanzant
30. Life doesn't have to be hard, life is on your side. -- Iyanla Vanzant
31. We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within. -- Iyanla Vanzant
32. It is your life and it is worth risking everything to make it yours. -- Oprah
33. The life you want is waiting to rise up to meet you ... Will you accept it? Do you feel worthy enough to accept it? -- Oprah
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