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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I consider this world to be like a school and our lives to be the classrooms.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
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Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
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I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, "God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me".
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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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There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.
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God is a feeling experience and not a believing experience. If your religion is a believing experience ... then that's not truly God.
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Your true passion should feel like breathing; it’s that natural.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction.
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, "This is who I am." If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly.
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I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
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Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.
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The ultimate comfort zone is within.
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If it's not hard, you're not dreaming big enough!
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Would you do your job and not be paid for it? I would do this job, and take on a second job just to make ends meet if nobody paid me. That’s how you know you are doing the right thing.
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Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
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When you do your best, people notice.
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I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.
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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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If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.