Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I actually found not having a routine was inspiration.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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I give the children education.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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What a child doesn't receive he can seldom later give.
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My friends and I were wild and we liked to joy-ride.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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I love being a mom. But there's a certain kind of tedium to your life when your kid is young. Writing allows you to wander when your kid is napping in a crib ten feet away. So that's the great joy of writing fiction for me.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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Those who prepared for all the emergencies of life beforehand may equip themselves at the expense of joy.
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It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.
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If someone told me, 'I'm gonna give you $600 million, but I'm going to take your hair'? Take my hair!
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I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.
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The hand washes the hand: give something and you may get something.
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Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Running from your fear can be more painful than facing it, for better or worse.
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My mom, God rest her soul - she liked nicknames. In the womb she named me Skip. There was another black guy in Piedmont, W.Va., and his name was Skip. They called him Big Skip, and I was Little Skip.
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Lasting joy is found not in what you get, but in what you give.
