Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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Trust your instincts. Intuition doesn't lie.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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If you seek what is honorable, what is good, what is the truth of your life, all the other things you could not imagine come as a matter of course.
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There's a group of 12 oak trees on my property in California that I call 'my disciples.' Their branches form a canopy over the ground, and I sit underneath them for inspiration.
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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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Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
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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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We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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Remember, you are co-creating your life with the energy of your own intentions.
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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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Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
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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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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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My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.
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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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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
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The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.
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Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.
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Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength.
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I believe your personality is formed at a very early age. Fame can magnify that personality, for good or bad, but it can't change it. So when people say to me, 'Don't change,' I'm thinking, To what? To who? Who else would I be?
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.