“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”
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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
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“What I learned for sure was that holding the shame was the greatest burden of all. When you have nothing to be ashamed of, when you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Make the right decision even when nobody is looking. Especially when no one is looking.”
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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
“My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and my maintaining focus.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Always take a stand for yourself, your values. You're defined by what you stand for”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Because this I know for sure: Who you're meant to be evolves from where you are right now. So learning to appreciate your lessons, mistakes, and setbacks as stepping-stones to the future is a clear sign you're moving in the right direction.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Real courage is being afraid but doing it anyway.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”
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Oprah Winfrey
