Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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You become what you believe. And to believe that you are created by the power that's greater than yourself means anything is possible.
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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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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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I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
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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 tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
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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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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid.
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I learned that I could control my life. You are the master of your fate. . . you are the captain of your soul. I took control and went to my space. . . My space. . . the universal energy. . . I tapped into that space of divine flow, where all beings, all things are connected. That space is real. You cannot have a meaningful life without having spiritual self-reflection. Know who you are and why you are here. When you tap into that space, divine flow, that universal energy, you become untouchable in what you are called to do.
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Once you clarify your purpose for doing something, the way to do it becomes clear.
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Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
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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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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.
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Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
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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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If you feel incomplete, you alone must fill yourself with love in all your empty shattered spaces.
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Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world.
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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
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You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
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I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.
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Always listen to your inner voice.
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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.