Oprah Winfrey Quotes

American talk show host, actress, producer, and author (born 1954)

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Oprah Gail Winfrey (born 29 January 1954) is an American media proprietor, talk show host, actress, producer, and philanthropist.

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Birth Name: Orpah Gail Winfrey

Native Name: Oprah Gail Winfrey

Alternative Names: Oprah

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Become the change you want to see — those are words I live by. Instead of belittling, uplift.

What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe.

Here’s how I see your weight — it is your smoke detector. And we’re all burning up the best part of our lives.” I’d never thought of it that way before, but it was a true aha moment. My weight was an indicator warning, a flashing light blaring my disconnection from the center of myself.

Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.

I want people to understand, that you are responsible for your life. Weather you are transexual, weather you are a divorcee, weather you are terminally ill, weather you are posessed by the devil or trying to get the devil out of you. You have control over your life, and it is only when you recognize that, and is willing to be responsible for your life that you can truely soar, and I believe that it's possible in our lifetime to fly if you want to.

[Attributed to a friend's Buddhist teacher] Be yourself–but be all of you.

I 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.

The 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.

The experiences in the first years of life are disproportionately powerful in shaping how your brain organizes.

If you want your life to be more rewarding, you have to change the way you think.

Delight thyself in the Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

anyone will ride in a limo but a true friend will ride the bus when the limo breaks down

If you're going to binge, literature is definitely the way to do it.

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.