Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion.
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The ultimate comfort zone is within.
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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.
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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Wherever you are in life, look at your beliefs. They put you there.
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For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity.
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I don't believe in luck. Luck is just preparation meeting the moment of opportunity.
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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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It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation.
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It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself.
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With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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I look at problems as opportunities and use every person, every incident, and every encounter as an opportunity to show a more loving part of myself.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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Skiing is the next best thing to having wings.
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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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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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There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Failures can be God's little whispers (or) a full earthquake in our lives because we didn't listen to the whispers
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There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.
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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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I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself.