"Death shows up to remind us to live more fully."
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Oprah Winfrey quotes (page 29 of 43)
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"Life has taught me to just be the best I can be."
"I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to."
"There 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."
"I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up."
"You become excellent, and when you become excellent, no-one can take that away from you."
"If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it."
"Are 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."
"I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready."
"Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself."
"Material success is rewarding and a lot of fun, but it's not the most important thing in my life because I know when this is all over, the Master isn't going to ask me how many things I owned or how many television shows I did. I think the questions will be, What did I do to make a difference? Did I learn to live with love in my heart?"
"The best way to look at aging is to see it as an opportunity to leave what didn't work behind and step boldly into a brand new future."
"When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice."
"You 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."
"Although there may be tragedy in your life, there’s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."
"Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself."
"There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die."
"I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work."
"If you don't give something back when you get, you don't keep."
"If something feels right, I do it. If it feels wrong, I don't. It's really very, very simple, but you've got to be willing to take your chances doing stuff that may look crazy to other people - or not doing something that looks right to others but just feels wrong to you."