"If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future."
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Oprah Winfrey quotes (page 4 of 43)
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"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe."
"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint"
"You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world."
"Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it."
"My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here."
"The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance."
"Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are."
"It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you’re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."
"Everybody looks at their poop."
"If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more. If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
"Nobody but you is responsible for your life. You are responsible for your life. What is your life? What is all life? What is every flower, every rock, every tree? Energy. And you're responsible for the energy you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others."
"A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself."
"Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
"There were no ugly people in Ethiopia"
"Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer."
"You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."
"I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."
"I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity."