Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

—Oprah Winfrey

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Oprah Gail Winfrey (; born Orpah Gail Winfrey; January 29, 1954) is an American media mogul, actress, executive producer, author, and television personality. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which ran in national syndication for 25 years, from 1986 to 2011....

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I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.

—Oprah Winfrey

Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it.

—Oprah Winfrey

Let your light shine. Shine within you so that it can shine on someone else. Let your light shine.

—Oprah Winfrey

Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.

—Oprah Winfrey

I define joy as a sustained sense of well-being and internal peace—a connection to what matters.

—Oprah Winfrey

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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is a nobler art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.

—Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse

Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement.

—Johann Georg von Zimmermann

To sit in the shade on a fine day, and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

—James Carroll

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