“Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”
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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
“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another. And I know for sure that in the final analysis of our lives- when the to-do lists are no more, when the frenzy is finished, when our e-mail inboxes are empty- the only thing that will have any lasting value is whether we've loved others and whether they've loved us.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“One of the most important questions a woman can ask herself: What do I really want-and what is my spirit telling me is the best way to proceed?”
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Oprah Winfrey
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Don't back down just to keep the peace. Standing up for yourself builds self confidence and self esteem.”
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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
“Say "Thank You" because your faith is so strong that you don't doubt that what ever the problem, you'll get through it. You're saying thank-you because you know that even in the eye of the storm, God has put a rainbow in the clouds.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“You don't become what you want, you become what you believe.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading about Oprah Winfrey’s ass.”
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Oprah Winfrey