Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.
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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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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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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.
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Happiness is there for the taking - and the making.
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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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A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself.
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It took a lot of courage to take the high road, but I would rather be significant with six million people watching a show with meaning, than everyone watching a show with no meaning.
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You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
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The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.
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You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you.
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I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work.
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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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Do what you want to do, when you want to do it ... and not a moment sooner.
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My response is that I love the church.
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To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.
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I've always believed free will is a birthright. God even allows us to choose whether to be led by the divine order.
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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 can't define "God," so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me.
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There are no mistakes in life!
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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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I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.
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Ordinary people can bring about change.
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I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready.