“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadn’t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldn’t have been lucky.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“We are not Human Beings experiencing spiritual lives, we are spiritual beings experiencing human lives.”
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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
“If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“We should no longer allow a mother to be defined as "just a mom". It is on her back that great nations are built. We should no longer allow any woman's voice to be drowned out or disregarded. As we affirm other women, and as we teach our sons, husbands and friends to hold them in the highest regard, we honor both the mothers whose shoulders we've stood on and the daughters who will one day stand tall on ours.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Don't worry about becoming successful but work toward being significant and the success will naturally follow.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Love is the essential existential fact. It is our ultimate reality and our purpose on earth.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“You aren't your past, you are probability of your future.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become , the more you have to be grateful for.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Successful people never worry about what others are doing.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.”
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Oprah Winfrey