In the words of Oprah Winfrey:
The stories that you tell yourself can make or break you - no matter who you are.
Anybody pretending to be anything other than who you really are-you will never, ever reach your personal potential.
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.
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
What we're all striving for is authenticity, a spirit-to-spirit connection.
Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way.
You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
When you have done everything that you can do, surrender. Give yourself up to the power and energy that's greater than yourself.
Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.
Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.
The new year is a chance to start over, to try again, to get it right.
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Worrying is wasted time. Use the same energy for doing something about whatever worries you.
I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, but it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
Don't get confused with what people say you are, with who you know you are.
The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction.
The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance.
Whatever someone did to you in the past has no power over the present. Only you give it power.
There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.
You have to find what sparks a light in you so that you in your own way can illuminate the world.
No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead.
You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness.
Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.
Everybody has a story. And there's something to be learned from every experience.
You only have to believe that you can succeed, that you can be whatever your heart desires, be willing to work for it, and you can have it.
Devote today to something so daring even you can't believe you're doing it.
No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.
Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.
Even the wildest dreams have to start somewhere. Allow yourself the time and space to let your mind wander and your imagination fly.
Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go.
I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward.
If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.
What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.
You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything.
Tune out the naysayers, tune into your own courage, and take a bold step toward the passion-filled life you really want.
Truth allows you to live with integrity. Everything you do and say shows the world who you really are. Let it be the Truth.
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.
Failure is a great teacher and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Running is the greatest metaphor for life, because you get out of it what you put into it.
The commonality in the human experience is the same. We have the same sorrows, and the same triumphs. Joy is joy is joy.
The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.
Find a way to get paid for doing what you love. Then every paycheck will be a bonus.
Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.
Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
If you neglect to recharge a battery, it dies. And if you run full speed ahead without stopping for water, you lose momentum to finish the race.
Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
What I know for sure is that you feel real joy in direct proportion to how connected you are to living your truth.
Nothing 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.
Often intuition will direct you. If it feels right, it's probably right.
You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely.
There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.
If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are.
Knowing your deepest intention can be your guiding force in the creation of a better life.
What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it.
When you learn, teach. When you get, give. Maya Angelou taught me that.
The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.
If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.
always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you'll have to eat them, you can swallow it well.
Have the courage to follow your passion - and if you don't know what it is, realize that one reason for your existence on earth is to find it.
It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
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