Through 25 seasons, 4,561 episodes.

I believe the Oprah Winfrey show

was one of the greatest classrooms in the world.

I really never thought of it that way.

The aha moments, the breakthroughs, the connections, the occasional ugly cry.

I'm missing so terribly, I'm missing every single minute.

The LOLs. The L-O-L's, the moments that matter, the eye-opening life lessons.

Never allow them to take you somewhere else. I'm bringing them back. It's time to open the vault. I personally

chosen these classic episodes to share with you again. Every single person you

ever will meet shares that common desire.

They want to know, do you see me?

Do you hear me?

Does what I say mean anything to you?

You are listening to the Oprah Winfrey show, The Podcast.

Well today what I'm doing is sharing wisdom that we have learned over the years. I'm sharing

wisdom that's been shared with me. And what we did, our producers, we just

pick five things because we thought five was easy that we thought could make your

family happier, but you all seem to be doing okay. The first

one we've told you time and time again and this is so profound that the time I

ran this before I got a letter from a woman in Texas, you know who you are, I won't embarrass you,

but a woman in Texas who had told me that she was preparing to kill herself on the day that

she heard this and that she had collected all of her pills to kill herself and she'd fed her

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