“What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“You can only be as happy as your saddest child.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When the universe compels me toward the best path to take, it never leaves me with "maybe," "should I," or even "perhaps." I always know for sure when it's telling me to proceed - because everything inside me rises up to reverberate "YES!”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Your calling isn’t something that somebody can tell you about. It’s what you feel. It is the thing that gives you juice. The thing that you are supposed to do. And nobody can tell you what that is. You know it inside yourself.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“"The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams."
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Oprah Winfrey
“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
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Oprah Winfrey
“What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated: What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When people show you who they are ... believe them!”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I plan to approach my future as one of great promise.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“One if the hardest things in life to learn are which bridges to cross and which bridges to burn.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I can honestly say that every gift I’ve ever given has brought at least as much happiness to me as it has to the person I’ve given it to. I give as I feel. Throughout the year, that may mean mailing a handwritten note to someone who didn’t expect it. Or sending a great new lotion I just discovered, or delivering a book of poetry with a pretty bow. It doesn’t matter what the thing is; what matters is how much of yourself goes into the giving, so that when the gift is gone, the spirit of you lingers
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Oprah Winfrey
“The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.”
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Oprah Winfrey