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Quotes About Resilience

Be the alligator girl. Be whatever your dreams and your luck will let you be. Wear your green cornflakes with pride. Snarl at the crowds, and do your best to make them flinch. Give them a quarter's worth of wonder.
~ Dolly Parton
In order to get to the rainbow you must be able to deal with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
Is it easy? No it ain't Can I fix it? No I cain't But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down
~ Dolly Parton
Dark night, bright future Like the phoenix from the ashes, I shall rise again
~ Dolly Parton
Sometimes you could see the scars and sometimes you couldn't. But everybody had them.
~ Dolly Parton
The way I see it, you've gotta put up with the rain to get a rainbow.
~ Dolly Parton
We can't just hope for a brighter day, we have to work for a brighter day. Love too often gets buried in a world of hurt and fear. And we have to work to dig it out so we can share it with our family, our friends, and our neighbors.
~ Dolly Parton
When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self.
~ Dolly Parton
I've had enough fighting I'm more into righting What's wrong when it's broken apart Demons, demons, we both had enough of our own Demons, demons, we don't have to fight them alone
~ Dolly Parton
It would be better to have a new enemy, wouldn't it, instead of an old one? The demons of the past were the hardest to slay.
~ Dolly Parton
crowd holding its breath. I'll be fightin' til I'm six feet underground Her eyes were squeezed
~ Dolly Parton
So here I was trying to get married to a man who hadn't really asked me, with a boss that didn't want me to and a town that wouldn't let me do it when I wanted. Yet I knew in my heart it was right.
~ Dolly Parton
If you don't like th road your walking, start paving anotheer one
~ Dolly Parton
If you want to make it in this town, being talented is just one little tiny part of the battle. Fearlessness is mandatory. And shamelessness sure as hell don't hurt.
~ Dolly Parton
I look back on all that now, and I realize this helped to build my character. It helped me build my own strength. So even the bad times were good. There were good times as well as bad times. But that's how memories are made, and that's why I'm sitting here today.
~ Dolly Parton
I strengthen the muscles around my heart, but I can't harden it.
~ Dolly Parton
Is it easy? She sang again. No it ain't. Can I fix it? No I can't. But I sure ain't gonna take it lyin' down
~ Dolly Parton
When a girl didn't have anyone to stand up for her, that girl had to stand up for her own damn self. She didn't expect that hunky Ruthanna groupie to understand. "Your shoes look like they could kill a person, Ruthanna," AnnieLee said, giggling. Ruthanna kicked out a leg to show off a pointy-toed stiletto. "They're killing me," she said. Then she brushed a red-gold curl away from her cheek and said, "I like you.
~ Dolly Parton
my lede: How
~ Dolly Parton
DOLLY INCLUDED THIS SONG ON HER Blue Smoke collection of 2014. "Try" is also a cornerstone song on the soundtrack of a 2020 Netflix original musical Christmas on the Square.
~ Dolly Parton
Hell's Kitchen.
~ Dolly Parton
I wrote a lot of songs that people wouldn't play on the radio, but I didn't care. It bothered me at the time, but I never thought, "I shouldn't have done that." Whatever I write is just what comes out of me, and I refuse to be judged.
~ Dolly Parton
The way I see it, if you want a rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
~ Dolly Parton
She must move. Which is why we have made it deliberately uncomfortable, painful and traumatic for her.
~ Dolores Cannon