"You can't really make people be any..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I write for myself things that I've gone through.”

“It's great at this stage in my life to still be in the running, that people appreciate you.”

“I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.”

“So give your complete attention to what you feel, and refrain from mentally labeling it. As you go into the feeling, be intensely alert. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place, and when the urge to turn away from it comes, observe it but don’t act on it. Keep putting your attention on the pain, keep feeling the grief, the fear, the dread, the loneliness, whatever it is. Stay alert, stay present - present with your whole Being, with every cell of your body. As you do so, you are bringing a light into this darkness. This is the flame of your consciousness.”

“When you look closely people are so strange & so complicated that they're actually beautiful.”

“She is not perfect. You are not perfect. The question is whether or not you are perfect for each other”

“Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.”

“The worthless and offensive members of society, whose existence is a social pest, invariably think themselves the most ill-used people alive, and never get over their astonishment at the ingratitude and selfishness of their contemporaries.”

“Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things.”