Oprah Winfrey Quotes

No experience is ever wasted. Everything has meaning.

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She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person.

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The smallest change in perspective can transform a life. What tiny attitude adjustment might turn your world around?

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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

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I only got the opportjnity to co-host a talk show because I failed at news.

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You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

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Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

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"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.

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I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

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That whisper you keep hearing is the universe trying to get your attention.

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A lesson will keep repeating itself until it is learned. Life first will send the lesson to you in the size of a pebble; if you ignore the pebble, then life will send you a brick; if you ignore the brick, life will send you a brick wall; if you ignore the brick wall, life will send you a demolition truck.

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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.

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Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

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There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

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Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream

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If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

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We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can.

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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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I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like.

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I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me.

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