Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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When I read poetry, I read it aloud. It's so much better that way.
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We're all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as a human being.
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All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.
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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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I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.
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I don't have a lot of "I can't" inside me.
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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
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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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I understand why people think we're gay. There isn't a definition in our culture for this kind of bond between women. So I get why people have to label it – how can you be this close without it being sexual?
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Leadership is about empathy.
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Whatever your calling or purpose is, it's your job to feel it. No gift that you have been given was made for yourself.
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Real success means creating a life of meaning through service that fulfills your reason for being here.
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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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I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.
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If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. That is the lesson, and that lesson alone will save you a lot of grief.
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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 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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No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.
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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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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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When you wake up in the morning looking for the light, the light will come.
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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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The next time you look into the mirror, try to let go of the storyline that says you're too fat or too sallow, too ashy or too old, your eyes are too small or your nose too big; just look into the mirror and see your face. When the criticism drops away, what you will see then is just you, without judgment, and that is the first step towards transforming your experience of the world.