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
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
Interpretation
The end of the year is a continuation rather than a conclusion, offering new opportunities for growth and improvement.
Oprah Winfrey's quote reflects on the nature of time, suggesting that year-end signifies neither a finality nor a fresh start, but rather a continuation of our journeys enriched with the lessons learned from our past experiences. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing the wisdom gained through time and the hopeful perspective of embracing new possibilities and opportunities for personal growth in the coming year.
In practice
In a New Year's speech, to inspire the audience to embrace change.
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
Nothing in the past is as powerful as what we choose to do in the present moment.
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era?
Black Lives Matter is one iteration of a much larger struggle to fight for black people's freedom.
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman.
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