"I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it; something really good would happen and I'd miss it."
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"We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you."
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"I feel my greatest work is yet to come."
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"Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves."
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"When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation."
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"The reason I so rarely break promises to other people? It breaks trust. Without trust, there's no relationship."
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"What I have learned in my life and work is that the more I am able to be myself, the more it enables other people to be themselves."
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"This is the body you've been given - love what you've got."
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"To play down mothering as small is to crack the very foundation on which greatness stands."
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"I've often called mothers the greatest spiritual teachers in the world."
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"You only have power in your energy field ... so the only way to live the life you want is in your energy field ... and your greatest power is love."
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"The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them."
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"That's what life is: an open door to all that is possible. And that's a powerful thing."
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"Getting older is the best thing that ever happened to me. I wake up every morning rejoicing that I'm still here with an opportunity to begin again and be better"
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"Dream big - dream very big. Work hard - work very hard. And after you've done all you can, you stand, wait and fully surrender."
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"I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational."
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"I tried to empty myself and let the spirit of Sethe inhabit me."
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"What you do today creates every tomorrow."
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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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"Don't worry about being successful. Worry about being significant."
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