“I would like to thank the people who've brought me those dark moments, when I felt most wounded, betrayed. You have been my greatest teachers.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success. When you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour your highest self. When you let go of the secret, only then you live to your greatest potential.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Eating more consciously now feels like a way of being. I actually think about how my food got to my plate.”
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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
“The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and there discovered was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Make the right decision even when nobody's looking and you will always turn out okay”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Whose life did you touch? Who did you love, and who loved you back?”
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Oprah Winfrey
“French philosopher-priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: “We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“What I know for sure is that there is no strength without challenge, adversity, resistance, and often pain. The problems that make you want to throw up your hands and holler “Mercy!” will build your tenacity, courage, discipline, and determination.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When we hold secrets it creates shame, and shame is a great barrier to success because when you carry the shame you do not allow yourself to fulfill your greatest potential, you do not honour the truth of yourself, you do not honour what is your highest self. When you let go of the secret allows you to live to your full potential.”
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Oprah Winfrey