Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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Oprah Winfrey has spoken publicly about a childhood marked by poverty and abuse, and this line compresses the position she reached about it. It is an instruction, not a consolation — the verb is active.

The distinction it draws is important. Wounds do not become wisdom on their own; untreated, they tend to repeat. Conversion requires examining what happened, which is why the sentence asks for work rather than time. What is gained is not the injury but the understanding extracted from it.