Oprah Winfrey Quotes
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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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The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship.
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I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.
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We are Spiritual Beings have a Human Experience. Not the other way around.
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Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others.
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After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.
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I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself.
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When I didn't have friends, I had books.
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I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.
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Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and it holds the world together.
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There is no greater source of strength and power for me in my life than going still, being quiet and recognizing what real power is.
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With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class.
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The nature of Buddhism, as I understand it, is to believe that we are all pure and radiant at our core. And yet we see around us so much evidence that people are not acting from a place of purity and radiance.
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There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
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The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
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Do not waste your time with people who have shown you they really mean no good for you.
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The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you. You can never be happy living someone else's dream. Live your own. And you will for sure know the meaning of happiness.
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There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life.
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Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?
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The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.
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You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again.
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All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself.
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I'm one of those people who lives for the moment. If you concern yourself with what's going to happen a year from now, or five years from now, you defuse the moment. Whatever comes, comes. For this time I enjoy the ascent. I don't worry about anything except getting thinner thighs.
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Helping others is the way we help ourselves.