Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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When you live with an open heart, unexpected, joyful things happen.
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Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?
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There's a surge, there's a kind of energy field that says, 'I'm in my groove, I'm in my groove.' and nobody has to tell you, 'You go, girl,' because you know you're already gone.
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
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When people show you who they are ... believe them!
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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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One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.
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I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
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I could eat a feeling faster than anybody, put a little hot sauce on it and wouldn't recognize it until it showed up on my behind three days later.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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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 understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?
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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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A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.
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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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You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.
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Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance - and then even the small steps and little victories along your path will take on greater meaning.
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There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel.
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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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For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.