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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Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life.
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Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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Having the courage to stand up and pursue your dreams will give you life's greatest reward and life's greatest adventure.
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With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.
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I truly believe that a woman can have anything she wants - if she's willing to do the hard work it takes to get it.
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I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America.
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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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Your life is a reflection of how you think.
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Everything that has ever happened to you has happened for you. Not one thing that has happened is wasted... You were building strength and strength x strength = POWER.
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If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are. It shouldn't change you. If you're a jerk, you just get to be a bigger jerk. What fame does is magnify who you are and puts that on a platter for the whole world to see.
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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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When you do your best, people notice.
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Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?
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Failure is a stepping-stone to greatness.
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Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change our perspective of your day and your life.
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You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.
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We're all here to figure out how to best give ourselves away.
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If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
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I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy.
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The surest way to bring goodness to yourself is to make it your intention to do good for somebody else.
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When you surrender and stop resisting and stop trying to change that which you can't change, but be in the moment, be fully open to the blessings you've already received and those that are yet to come and stand in that space of gratitude ... and look at where you are and how far you've come and what you've accomplished - when you can claim THAT and SEE that, the literal vibration of your life will change.
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I know where my lane is, and I know how to stay in my lane. My lane is evolving the consciousness of people.