I'm still learning, you know. At 80, I feel there is a lot I don't know.
Interpretation
Life is a continuous journey of learning, regardless of age.
Lena Horne's quote emphasizes the idea that learning is a lifelong process and that even at the age of 80, one can acknowledge gaps in knowledge. It reflects humility and a recognition that wisdom comes from continual exploration and curiosity about the world.
In practice
In a speech about lifelong education, this quote can be used to inspire older adults.
It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. Carry it by the comfortable handles of gratitude for what's positive and that it is not worse, rather than the uncomfortable edges of bitterness for the negatives and that it is not better.
I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
I was unique in that I was a kind of black that white people could accept. I was their daydream. I had the worst kind of acceptance because it was never for how great I was or what I contributed. It was because of the way I looked.
My identity is very clear to me now, I am a black woman.
In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.
I will not just live my life. I will not just spend my life. I will invest my life.
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Flint has the potential to produce fire, and gems have intrinsic value. We ordinary people can see neither our own eyelashes, which are so close, nor the heavens in the distance. Likewise, we do not see that the Buddha exists in our own hearts.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah
We don't set out to save the world; we set out to wonder how other people are doing and to reflect on how our actions affect other people's hearts.
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