“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
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“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
― Music at Night and Other Essays
― Music at Night and Other Essays
“Every man with a little leisure and enough money for railway tickets, every man, indeed, who knows how to read, has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting.”
― Jesting Pilate
― Jesting Pilate
“As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.”
― The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
― The Uncommon Wisdom of Oprah Winfrey: A Portrait in Her Own Words
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