After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
Dolly PartonRead
Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that regularly reassessing and planning one's life is important for personal growth.
Dolly Parton emphasizes the importance of change and adaptation in life by suggesting that every seven years, one should take the time to reflect and create a new plan. This practice allows individuals to evaluate their goals, adjust to new circumstances, and ensure that their lives align with their evolving aspirations, highlighting that growth is a continual process.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth and development.
After Momma gave birth to twelve of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.
My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.
A real important thing is that, though I rely on my husband for love, I rely on myself for strength.
The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.
If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then, you are an excellent leader.
Until I was a teenager, I used red pokeberries for lipstick and a burnt matchstick for eyeliner. I used honeysuckle for perfume.
What happened to the world was gradual. I've forgotten what it actually was, but I have faint, fetal memories of what it was like. A smoldering dread that never really caught fire till there wasn't much left to burn. Each sequential step surprised us. Then one day we woke up, and everything was gone.
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters β whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.
I did things I did not understand for reasons I could not begin to explain just to be in motion, to be trying to do something, change something in a world I wanted desperately to make over but could not imagine for myself.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
I stand before you today to repudiate the ridiculous notion that the American people will not vote for qualified candidates simply because he is not white or because she is not a male.
How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.
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