"Find out what you are, then do..." - Quote by Dolly Parton
Find out what you are, then do it on purpose
More by Dolly Parton
“I look like a woman, but I think like a man.”
“Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I've got. Somebody's got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain't got this, somebody ain't got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.”
“I often joke that 100 years from now I hope people are saying, 'Dang, she looks good for her age!'”
More on Purpose
“Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?”
“Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else.”
“Questing... is not an ego trip; it is an adventure to bring into fulfillment your gift to the world, which is yourself.”
More on Self Discovery
“I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.”
“I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world… And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom.”
“I feel as if my life had grown more outward when I can express it.”