You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
RihannaRead
Let go of the things that make you feel dead. Life is worth living!
Interpretation
Release negativity to embrace the value of life.
This quote emphasizes the importance of letting go of elements in our lives that drain our energy or happiness. Rihanna encourages us to release the burdens that make us feel lifeless and instead focus on appreciating the beauty and potential of life, as it is truly valuable and worth pursuing.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth.
You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.
I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment - I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I'm on to the next thing. I don't want to get lost in this big cushion of success.
When it comes to everybody else's thing and their lane and their timing, I'm never doing anything intentional to, like, come after somebody. That will always be my biggest mistake or anybody's biggest mistake if that's their intention.
Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.
People - especially white people - they want me to be a role model just because of the life I lead. The things I say in my songs, they expect it of me.
Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.
I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.
Talked my head off Worked my tail off Cried my eyes out Walked my feet off Sang my heat out So you see, There's really not much left of me.
After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Human life runs its course in the metamorphosis between receiving and giving.
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