{"id":18436,"date":"2026-03-11T06:06:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T06:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/uncategorized\/guideposts-classics-dolly-parton-on-happiness\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:05:48","slug":"guideposts-classics-dolly-parton-on-happiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpbookstore.org\/articles\/positive-living\/entertainment\/music\/guideposts-classics-dolly-parton-on-happiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Guideposts Classics: Dolly Parton on Happiness"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear it from folks all the time: \u201cGosh, Dolly, you seem so happy!\u201d Well, my smile\u2019s pretty hard to miss, considering I\u2019m a gal who likes her lipstick\u2014the redder, the better. Take it from me, though, the fancy makeup is just highlighting what\u2019s for real. And that\u2019s true happiness<\/a>, the kind that comes from the inside.<\/p>\n

Lately I\u2019ve been giving it some thought and I\u2019ve come up with five things that make mine a happy life. Five things that make just about anyone\u2019s life joyous. Yours too, I bet.<\/p>\n

1. I love my friends and family.<\/strong>
\nI grew up poor, so poor my daddy paid the doctor who delivered me with a sack of cornmeal. Yet my family was rich in so many ways too. Each and every one of us 12 kids knew we were precious in the sight of God<\/a> and cherished by our mother and father.<\/p>\n

Maybe you\u2019ve heard my song \u201cCoat of Many Colors,\u201d about a girl who wears her coat of rags proudly. That came right out of my childhood in the Smoky Mountains<\/a> in Tennessee. Someone gave us a box of rags, and Mama sewed them together to make a coat for me. The kids at school teased me, but I knew Mama put her love into every stitch. I felt proud to have that coat, and blessed.<\/p>\n

Blessed as I felt the day I met Judy Ogle in third grade. My family had just moved to Caton\u2019s Chapel from another town in the Smoky Mountains. I walked into school, the new girl, too shy to make a peep. Until I noticed someone else quietly looking on. A girl with bright green eyes and a copper-colored ponytail. Something told me to go over and say hi.<\/p>\n

Almost 50 years later, Judy and I haven\u2019t stopped talking. (Just ask my husband, Carl, who\u2019s always shaking his head at how we tie up the phone line.) If I get an idea for a tune while I\u2019m picking at a guitar, Judy\u2019s there to write everything down before it goes out of my head. Whenever I need a dose of country air<\/a>, Judy\u2019s there to drive out to the mountains with me.<\/p>\n

At the heart of every close friendship<\/a> I have, there\u2019s what I discovered with Judy back in third grade\u2014the magic of having someone in your life who understands where you\u2019re coming from and where you\u2019re going, who just knows.<\/p>\n

2. I love what I do.<\/strong>
\nMy daddy likes to say I was singing before I could talk. That might be a bit of a tall tale, but I can barely remember a time I wasn\u2019t making music. At age six, I was shaking the rafters at church. But our little country church could only fit so many people, and Sunday only came once a week.<\/p>\n

Mama said God had put his hand on me and given me my voice, so I decided he must have bigger plans for me.<\/p>\n

Boy, did I want to be ready for them. I took up guitar at age seven, making my first instrument out of an old mandolin and two bass strings. I put on concerts right on our porch. To look the part of a glamorous singer, I used Mercurochrome for lipstick, crushed pokeberries for rouge and a burnt match for mascara.<\/p>\n

I\u2019d collect my brothers and sisters who were too young to run away, sit them down in the dirt, then get up on the porch and belt out songs into a tin can on a stick like I was at the Grand Ole Opry. If I couldn\u2019t round up any of my brothers and sisters, there were always the pigs and chickens to serenade.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: 6 DOLLY PARTON RECIPES WE LOVE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

I landed my first professional gig on the Cas Walker Radio Show in Knoxville (I\u2019ll tell you all about it later). I was 10. I\u2019ve been making a living doing what I love ever since<\/a>. Is it any wonder that I feel incredibly fortunate? Not to mention grateful.<\/p>\n

3. I love to laugh.<\/strong>
\nPeople often compliment my voice, my songwriting, my business acumen, and yes, my distinctive<\/em> fashion sense. But I\u2019ve always felt that my greatest gift is my positive attitude<\/a> and sense of humor (they go together like biscuits and gravy). It\u2019s like the Bible says, \u201cA merry heart doeth good like medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n

These past 38 years with Carl have been one fun ride. He should hire himself out as a professional practical joker. I never know what he\u2019s going to pull next, but I do know it\u2019s going to leave me laughing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I remember one concert in Louisville, Kentucky. My backup singers sounded kind of off. I glanced over my shoulder to see what was the matter. There was Carl at one of the microphones! And he had the audacity to wink at me. I decided to do him one better.<\/p>\n

I sauntered over to a policeman working security. \u201cThat man back there in the white shirt isn\u2019t part of our group,\u201d I told him. The cops hauled Carl away. It was all I could do not to crack up. (Don\u2019t worry, someone from our crew let the officers know who Carl was before they got too far.)<\/p>\n

Having a live-in personal humor trainer like Carl is a big help. There are things I do on my own too, to keep my attitude in shape. I close my eyes and picture angels surrounding me. I tell them whatever\u2019s troubling me, then I envision them trampling those burdens to powder.<\/p>\n

If my attitude needs more adjusting, I visualize God holding me upside down and shaking all the negative stuff\u2014fears, doubts, insecurities\u2014right out of me. Try it. Ask God to turn you upside down<\/a>! It\u2019s a surefire pick-me-up.<\/p>\n

4. I love to pray.<\/strong>
\nGetting up close and personal with God is something I learned in his house. Not the way you\u2019d expect, though. I used to explore the old church my town, Caton\u2019s Chapel, was named after. It was a ruin\u2014shattered windows, buckled floor, graffiti-splattered walls. Saturday nights teenagers partied there.<\/p>\n

Mama was aware of the not-so-wholesome goings-on and warned us to steer clear of the place. But for some reason I was drawn to it, during daylight hours anyway. I\u2019d hunt for doodlebugs in the cool earth under the floorboards, daydream at the broken piano in the corner.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019d pray<\/a>. I would tell God how I wanted to see the world that lay beyond the Smoky Mountains. To make it as a country music star and have a whole building full of folks to sing to. To do Mama and Daddy proud.<\/p>\n

Was God listening? I couldn\u2019t quite tell. Then one day I was sitting in a pew, talking to him, when suddenly, something changed in the very air around me. Something changed inside me too. I felt like I would bust with happiness.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: DOLLY PARTON’S DREAMS<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

God was right there with me.<\/a> I was absolutely sure. I didn\u2019t have to jump up and down or shout or even sing to get his attention. I could just whisper. He heard every word.<\/p>\n

Something I would have done well to remember in the early 1980s, when I was going through the darkest time. Not that I had any real reason to be unhappy. I had a strong marriage, tons of family and friends, a well-established career. But a movie I\u2019d made hadn\u2019t turned out well. I had some serious medical issues.<\/p>\n

Judy was going through a crisis of her own, so I couldn\u2019t lean on her like usual. And poor Carl was so worried about my health I didn\u2019t want to put any more on him. For the first time in my life, I felt all alone. Like no one was listening, not even God.<\/p>\n

It was more an act of desperation than inspiration, but I grabbed for the only lifeline I could think of. The Bible. I sat down and read it cover to cover, a little every day<\/a>. Pretty soon verses jumped out at me. Like that line in I Thessalonians that always had me stumped: \u201cPray without ceasing.\u201d How on earth was anyone going to do that?<\/p>\n

Coming out of that dark time, that\u2019s when I finally got what those words meant. No matter where I go or what I\u2019m doing, a part of me is talking to God. And a part of God is listening.<\/p>\n

5. I love you.<\/strong>
\nI believe God put the dream in my heart<\/a> to become a country music performer so I could share the love he poured into my life with as many people as possible. I know you might think, That\u2019s just Dolly being outrageous again,<\/em> but why else would God have let me discover what I did the first time I sang in front of an audience?<\/p>\n

READ MORE: CHRISTMAS WITH DOLLY PARTON<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

This gets back to that first gig I mentioned. I landed it thanks to my uncle, Bill Owens. I was 10, and he took me to Knoxville to meet Cas Walker, the host of a live music radio show. Cas said hello and stared down at me like he expected me to say something back. Well, I did. I said, \u201cMr. Walker, I want to work for you.\u201d<\/p>\n

He shook my hand and said, \u201cYou\u2019re hired. A lot of people come to me and say, \u2018Mr. Walker, I want a job,\u2019 but you\u2019re the first one that ever said, \u2018I want to work.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

The show was recorded in an auditorium that seated maybe 60 people. I walked up to the microphone and looked out at the audience. All those strangers! Whoa, this was a whole lot different from getting up in front of the pigs and chickens on our farm. The first notes were kinda squeaky. Pretty soon, though, the sheer joy of singing<\/a> took over.<\/p>\n

I finished with a flourish. Everyone clapped and stomped their feet. They wanted an encore, but I didn\u2019t have one. I looked over at Uncle Bill, and he mouthed, \u201cSing it again.\u201d So I did\u2014and they cheered all over again, even louder. I never knew I could feel so close, so connected, to a bunch of strangers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That was the moment I fell in love with the people I sing for. With you. I\u2019ve loved y\u2019all ever since.<\/p>\n

I am a happy person. That is my greatest blessing. It can be yours too. Think about it. Friends and family, work, laughter, prayer, love. They add up to joy<\/a>. For you, for me, for anyone.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: DOLLY PARTON SHARES THE STORY BEHIND ‘MARY, DID YOU KNOW?’<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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