Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully.
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I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them - there's only us.
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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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Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing.
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I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.
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It's time for us as a country to try to come together in ways that freedom was really meant to be.
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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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An nice lady in the back...asked what I thought about how we begin to move forward. I think it is up to each individual, which then moves to your family, which moves to your community. Each person, in their own life, let your life be a light for peace, for justice, for all that is good. Just let it shine, let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.
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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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Living in the moment means letting go of the past and not waiting for the future. It means living your life consciously, aware that each moment you breathe is a gift.
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Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
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Life whispers to you all the time...from the time you wake up in the morning and with every single experience.
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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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I was in a conversation and someone said: "You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, "But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here."
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The greatest lesson of life is that you are responsible for your life.
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Don't live your life to please other people.
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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
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It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
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Always listen to your inner voice.
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Never for a moment allow your greatness to interfere with your goodness.
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Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.
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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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You gotta be willing to fail...if you're afraid of failing, you won't get very far.