#ty

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#able #being #concentrate #difference #does

I'm black, I don't feel burdened by it and I don't think it's a huge responsibility. It's part of who I am. It does not define me. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#black #burdened #define #does #feel

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#dwell #own #path #possibility #privilege

I feel that luck is preparation meeting opportunity. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#i #i feel #luck #meeting #opportunity

My first day in Chicago, September 4, 1983. I set foot in this city, and just walking down the street, it was like roots, like the motherland. I knew I belonged here. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#chicago #city #day #down #first

Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. ↗

— Debra Winger

#behavior #comes #insecurity #most

I have enjoyed a wonderful run in films, so far, and I may, at some point, come back. But it will be in my own time and in my own style. ↗

— Debra Winger

#come #enjoyed #far #films #i

Now that I'm over sixty I'm veering toward respectability. ↗

— Shelley Winters

#now #over #respectability #sixty #toward

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#i #luxury #people #possibility #talk

I don’t want you to be sorry. I don’t want you to be anything,” I snapped. Her expression was the final straw. Of course she didn’t want to be around me. I was an infantil asshole that had the emotional control of a three-year-old. I shoved away from the table and pushed through the door, not stopping until I was sitting on my bike. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#beauty