Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
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Balance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
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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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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.
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What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.
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Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.
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Leadership is about empathy. It is about having the ability to relate to and connect with people for the purpose of inspiring and empowering their lives.
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If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.
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What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
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Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
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When you don't know what to do, get still. The answer will come.
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Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.
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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 get to know who you really are in a crisis.
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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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You become what you believe.
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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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You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward.
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I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.
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Pray as if it's up to God, work as if it's up to you.
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Follow your passion. It will lead you to your purpose.
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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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Forgivness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.