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Do things you've always wanted to do. You are the single most influence on your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
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.
— Oprah Winfrey
The truth is that as much as you plan and dream and move forward in your life, you must remember you are always acting in conjunction with the flow and energy of the universe.
— Oprah Winfrey
The thoughts that linger are the "If only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.
— Oprah Winfrey
Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands—you are the single biggest influence in your life.
— Oprah Winfrey
In this world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. (Mr. Dumby, Act III)
— Oscar Wilde
Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar
— Oscar Wilde
roads were made for journeys not destinations
— Confucius
The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.
— Confucius
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
— Cormac McCarthy
Our waking life's desire to shape the world to our convenience invites all manner of paradox and difficulty.
— Cormac McCarthy
The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.
— Cormac McCarthy