"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

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Source : Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

Dolly Parton

#Life Quotes #Happiness Quotes #Being Yourself Quotes

“The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)”
“Baby smiled, mother wailed, Earthward while the sweetling sailed; Mother smiled, baby wailed, When to earth came Viola.”

Source : Francis Thompson (2002). “Poems of Francis Thompson”, p.51, A&C Black
“It's wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong. It's wrong in America, it's wrong in Germany, it's wrong in Russia, it's wrong in China. It was wrong in 2000 B.C., and it's wrong in 1954 A.D. It always has been wrong, and it always will be wrong.”
“I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.”
“A disease that has never been seen before cannot be cured with every-day herbs.”
“I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who is tied down under a roof with a man who is really nothing to her; who wears the manâ€™s name, who bears the manâ€™s children â€” who plays the virtuous woman. . . . May I never, I say, become that abnormal merciless animal, that deformed monstrosity â€” a virtuous woman.”

Source : Mary MacLane (2014). “Tender Darkness: A Mary MacLane Sampler”, p.38, Petrarca Press
“I've been trying to find the word that says what I need to be in life. 'Brave' is the only word. It's the only thing that I ask myself to be.”
“God's children are God's children anywhere and everywhere, and shall be even unto the end. Nothing can sever that sacred tie, or divide us from his heart.”

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