I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
Oprah WinfreyRead
The way to choose happiness is to follow what is right and real and the truth for you.
Interpretation
Choosing happiness involves aligning your choices with your personal values and truths.
Oprah Winfrey's quote emphasizes that happiness is a conscious choice that stems from pursuing what you believe is right and authentic for yourself. It suggests that an individual's journey toward happiness is rooted in self-awareness and integrity, as aligning with one's own truths can lead to a fulfilling and joyful life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and decision-making.
I will just create, and if it works, it works, and if it doesn't, I'll create something else. I don't have any limitations on what I think I could do or be.
I have crossed over on the backs of Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Madam C. J. Walker. Because of them I can now live the dream. I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit.
I believe that one of life's greatest risks is never daring to risk.
The only courage you will need is the courage to live the life you are meant to.
I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots.
What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you
It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy.
Every moment of happiness requires a great amount of Ignorance
Living a good life leads to enduring happiness. Goodness in and of itself is the practice AND the reward.
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Happiness and joy are not the same. For what does the fervent craving for joy mean? It does not mean that we wish at any cost to experience the psychic state of being joyful. We want to have reason for joy, for an unceasing joy that fills us utterly, sweeps all before it, exceeds all measure.
A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin.
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