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 don't think that because I'm not married it's made my life any less. That old maid myth is garbage.
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
If all life moves inevitably towards its end, then we must, during our own, colour it with our colours of love and hope.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.
You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.
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