“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“your happiness, you’re wasting your time. You must be fearless enough to give yourself the love you didn’t receive. Begin noticing how every day brings a new opportunity for your growth. How buried disagreements with your mother show up in arguments with your spouse. How unconscious feelings of unworthiness appear in everything you do (and don’t do). All these experiences are your life’s way of urging you to leave the past behind and make yourself whole. Pay attention. Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I became so frustrated with visiting inner-city schools (in America) that I just stopped going. The sense that you need to learn just isn't there. If you ask the kids what they want or need, they will say an iPod or some sneakers. In South Africa, they don't ask for money or toys. They ask for uniforms so they can go to school.”
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Oprah Winfrey
“I know for sure that you cannot give to everyone else and not give back to yourself. You will end up empty, or at best, less than what you can be for yourself and your family and your work. Replenish the well of yourself, for yourself.”
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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
“Do things you’ve always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.”
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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
“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
“Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it. ”
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Oprah Winfrey
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
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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
“You get to know who you really are in a crisis.”
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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
