Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.
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I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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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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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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One of the biggest mistakes humans make is to believe there is only one way. There are many diverse paths leading to what you call God.
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Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
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You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was.
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When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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Every day, passion speaks to us through our feelings. That's why when you allow yourself to become anesthetized by what others think, you literally block yourself from living the life you were called to live. I promise you that if you make a choice that doesn't please your mate, your friends, your mother, or whoever, the world will not fall apart. The people who truly love you want you to love yourself.
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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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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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I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
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Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself.
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You cannot be loving when you are blaming. You cannot be loving when you are criticising. You cannot be loving when you are judging.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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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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Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment.
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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
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All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind.
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Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.