Quotes for Every Occasion - Oprah Style!

All quotes are from O Magazine.

Choices and Change
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.

December 2003

Focusing on Your Goals

Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you're going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.

July 2003

Facing Challenges

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

October 2002

Failure as Motivation
Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

September 2003

Quotes for Every Occasion

Must be nice...
"I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out. I work very hard, and I am worth every cent.” ~Naomi Campbell

Tame the Neurosis:
"What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn't much better than tedious disease." ~George Dennison Prentice

Practical Advice for Planning Meals:
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper." ~Adelle Davis

Philosophy Lovers:
"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison." ~Lucretius (96 BC - 55 BC), De Rerum Natura

Oprah Lovers:
"There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of my favorite things!" ~Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine, February 2005

Quotes for Every Occasion

• Perspective

"More die in the United States of too much food than of too little." ~John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society

• Kick in the Butt

"Reality check: you can never, ever, use weight loss to solve problems that are not related to your weight. At your goal weight or not, you still have to live with yourself and deal with your problems. You will still have the same husband, the same job, the same kids, and the same life. Losing weight is not a cure for life." ~Phillip C. McGraw, The Ultimate Weight Solution: The 7 Keys to Weight Loss Freedom, 2003

• Humor (It's funny because it's true!)

"Food is like sex: when you abstain, even the worst stuff begins to look good." ~Beth McCollister

• Literature Lovers

"To promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing." ~Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1876

• A Dose of Common Sense

"Food is an important part of a balanced Diet." ~Fran Liebowitz