Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it.
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What I know for sure is that behind every catastrophe, there are great lessons to be learned. Among the many that we as a country need to get is that as long as we play the "us and them" game, we don't evolve as people, as a nation, as a planet.
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Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
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You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, "You can't." Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward.
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I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it.
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People just want to know that they matter.
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I still want what I've always wanted ... to be the best person I can be.
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Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.
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This year I am choosing to live beyond my wildest dreams. I wonder where they'll take me.
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The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.
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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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If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.
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If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself.
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I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier.
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When you choose the paradigm of service, it turns everything you do from a job into a gift.
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Ignoring your passion is like dying a slow death...Passion whispers to you through your feelings, beckoning you toward your highest good. Pay attention to what makes you feel energized, connected, stimulated- what gives you your juice. Do what you love, give it back in the form of service, and you will do more than succeed. You will triumph.
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The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.
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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.
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If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
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The secret to being successful is to find a way to bring yourself through, even in your stories. People are looking for the essence of your truth. When you can bring your own truth to it, that's when it works.
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That's what leads to a reinvention of yourself - being fully present and in the moment.
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Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
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I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, "The Power of 'I Am.' " I just love that sermon.