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The stories we tell ourselves

By December 5, 2013Resistance

This is pretty cool.

"It starts with the story that you're telling yourself. I've said it before: we become what we believe. You don't become what you wish for, or what you want. You become what you really believe in your heart you deserve and that you're worthy of. That's the reason (I believe) I've been able to accomplish what I have in the world: IT'S BECAUSE I DID NOT BELIEVE WHAT I WAS TOLD ABOUT BEING POOR, AND BLACK, AND FEMALE IN MISSISSIPPI in 1954.

I actually believed in a higher power, in a greater consciousness. (I called it God.) And I was able to link my belief, align my beliefs with that power that was greater than myself. And to allow that to be the current that flowed through my life. So: the stories we tell ourselves. That's a story I told myself. When I heard I was God's child, I took it. I took it and I believed it. I'm God's child, that means I can do anything." —Oprah Winfrey

What story are you telling yourself as a writer about what you can and can’t do?

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