Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.
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Don't live your life to please other people.
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You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
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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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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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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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What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
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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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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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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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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
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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.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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Everybody matters. Everyone just wants to be heard.
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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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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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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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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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You get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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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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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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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.