Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Purpose is the thread that connects the dots to everything you do that leads you to an extraordinary life.
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If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.
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Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.
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The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
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Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
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Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
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I had become so accustomed to succeeding that I no longer even remembered what it was like to fail.
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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
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You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”
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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better.
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Bravery shows up in everyday life when people have the courage to live their truth, their vision and their dreams.
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Whatever your secret, live your own truth; life is too short.
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For years I've advocated keeping a gratitude journal, writing down five things every day that brought pleasure and gratefulness.
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Are you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
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One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you.
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When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was.
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The whole barrier exists because most people never come together and sit down at a table ... join together, break bread together, and celebrate their differences and their likenesses.
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Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
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If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
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Intent and service-that is my motto.