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“You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Happiness #Moving On #Letting Go
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“I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Daughter #Growing Up #School
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“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Positive #Happiness
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“Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Organization #America #Cnn
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“Appreciating what shows up in your life changes your personal vibration. Gratitude elevates your life to a higher frequency.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Gratitude #Life Changing #Appreciate
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“One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Voice #People #Enlightenment
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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.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Feelings #Contentment #Paychecks
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“The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, "You are 'the voice.'" You are the voice, that was my name for you.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Years #Names #Voice
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“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Life #Positive
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“I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Believe #Destiny #Tools
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“Learn from every mistake, because every experience, particularly your mistakes, are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Mistake #Force #Teach
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“Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspire #Humanity #Overcoming
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“You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Writing #Positivity #People
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“I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Responsibility #Black #Firsts
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“If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Positive #Looks #Enough
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“I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Live In The Moment #Trying #Next
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“Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Inspiring #Money
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“Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Believe #Thinking #People
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“Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Positive #Confidence
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“Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Art #Speak #Define You
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“You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Light #World
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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.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Meaningful #Real #Decision
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“I believe the choice to become a mother is the choice to become one of the greatest spiritual teachers there is.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Mothers Day #Spiritual #Teacher
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“You get from the world what you give to the world.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Love #Life #Giving
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“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Love #Inspirational #Life
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“You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, "Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction." It's just an experience, just an experience.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Inspirational #Life #Happiness
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“I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Outcomes #Causes #Living My Life
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“If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need to recognize that and take care of yourself; people aren't going to change simply because you want them to.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Friendship #Self #People
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“So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Letting Go #Color #Purple
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“You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.”
-- Oprah Winfrey
#Waiting #Helping
