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
When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.
Interpretation
As you age, it becomes necessary to make clear choices about your direction in life.
Dolly Parton's quote emphasizes the importance of taking responsibility for one's life decisions as one reaches the age of 40. This milestone often signifies a point where individuals can no longer remain indecisive or passive; instead, they must actively choose a path and shape their future through deliberate choices.
In practice
In a motivational speech about embracing life changes.
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.
Each new thing he encountered in life impelled him in a direction that fully convinced him of its rightness, but then the next new thing loomed up and impelled him in the opposite direction, which also felt right. There was no controlling narrative: he seemed to himself a purely reactive pinball in a game whose only object was to stay alive for staying alive's sake.
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness.
In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time.
Life is for living and working at. If you find anything or anybody a bore, the fault is in yourself.
This cabin, Mary, in my sight appears,_x000D_ _x000D_ Built as it has been in our waning years,_x000D_ _x000D_ A rest afforded to our weary feet,_x000D_ _x000D_ Preliminary to - the last retreat.
The most important thing is to live an interesting life. Keep your eyes, ears and heart open. Talk to people and visit interesting places, and don't forget to ask questions. To be a writer you need to drink in the world around you so it's always there in your head.
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