You have a gift that only you can give the world - that's the whole reason you're on the planet. Use your precious energy to build a magnificent life that really is attainable. The miracle of your existence calls for celebration every day.
Oprah WinfreyIf you're hurting, you need to help somebody else ease their hurt. If you're in pain, help somebody else's pain.
Oprah WinfreyRight now you are one choice away from a new beginning - one that leads you toward becoming the fullest human being you can be.
Oprah WinfreyI don't yell at people, I don't mistreat people. I don't talk down to people, so no one else in this building, in this vicinity, has the right to do it.
Oprah WinfreyAre you ready to stop colluding with a culture that makes so many of us feel physically inadequate? Say goodbye to your inner critic, and take this pledge to be kinder to yourself and others.
Oprah WinfreyI have named myself an unofficial ambassador for Australia and I have the biggest mouth on Earth.
Oprah WinfreyLet excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
Oprah WinfreyIt doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.
Oprah WinfreyThese French-style caramels are handmade in California. It's always hard to give them away!
Oprah WinfreyNothing is ever wrong. We learn from every step we take. Whatever you did today was the way it was meant to be. Be proud of you.
Oprah WinfreyI 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.
Oprah WinfreyI have not missed a day in my life of praying. It's always about the same thing, using my life as a vehicle. Whatever I do, let it bring goodness to myself and to everybody that I come in contact with.
Oprah WinfreyWhat matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good.
Oprah WinfreyYou look at yourself and you accept yourself for who you are, and once you accept yourself for who you are you become a better person.
Oprah WinfreyIn order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
Oprah WinfreyBalance lives in the present. The surest way to lose your footing is to focus on what dreadful things might happen.
Oprah WinfreyIt's up to each of us to get very still and say, 'This is who I am.' No one else defines your life. Only you do.
Oprah WinfreyEvery one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
Oprah WinfreyStep through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
Oprah WinfreyThe great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.
Oprah WinfreyIf I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them.
Oprah Winfreylack of self-esteem is what causes wars because people who really love themselves don't go out and try to fight other people ... It's the root of all the problems.
Oprah WinfreyWhen I was a kid and the other kids were home watching "Leave it to Beaver," my father and step-mother were marching me off to the library.
Oprah WinfreyI grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized.
Oprah WinfreyI am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
Oprah WinfreyYou must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you.
Oprah WinfreyWhat you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it. Opportunities, relationships, even money flowed my way when I learned to be grateful no matter what happened in my life.
Oprah WinfreyI was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled "the preacher girl."
Oprah WinfreyYou can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt.
Oprah WinfreyWhat I know is, if you do work that you love, and work that fulfills you, the rest will come. I truly believe the reason I've been so financially successful is because my focus has never been on the money.
Oprah WinfreyThere are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice.
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