Ivanka Trump quotes Dolly Parton on election night after sitting out her father’s campaign

Ivanka Trump skips the campaign trail on the eve of the 2024 presidential election.

Instead of joining her father Donald Trump in Pittsburgh and Grand Rapids, Michigan, for his final rallies before Election Day, the former president’s daughter, 78, and the late Ivana Trumpspent election night thinking about life.

In one Instagram carouselIvanka, who served as an advisor to her father during his term, wrote that she “turned 43 years old this past week.”

Her lengthy post included more than a dozen quotes “about life lessons,” as well as “some truths I’ve learned along the way.”

“Approach life with love and positivity. Dolly Parton said, ‘I do not criticize or condemn; I love and accept,” Ivanka wrote as her fourteenth life lesson.

She also quoted American naturalist and essayist Henry David Thoreau, urging herself and others to spend their time and energy on things that matter, before moving on to Carl Jung.

“Thinking is difficult; that is why most people judge,” is the quote she borrowed from the Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist before adding her own message: “You cannot understand what you judge. Instead, observe, study and learn.”

Ivanka took a step back in her campaign for her father this year, but she did attend the last day of the 2024 Republican National Convention on July 18.

“She is very happy and living her best life,” says a source in her social circle told PEOPLE in March. “She left politics completely in the rearview mirror and so this time, even though her father is the leading Republican candidate, she doesn’t care. When he said he would run for office again, she told him she didn’t want to. be involved.”

Ivanka said she would be remove themselves from the political world in November 2022, when Trump announced his plans to run for president in 2024.

“I love my father very much,” she said in a statement at the time. “This time I choose to prioritize my young children and the private life we ​​create as a family.”

She continued, “I have no intention of being involved in politics. While I will always love and support my father, in the future I will also do so outside the political arena.”

Ivanka shares daughter Arabella Rose Kushner, 13, and sons Joseph Frederick Kushner, 10, and Theodore James Kushner, 8, with her husband, Jared Kushner.

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In October, Ivanka was spotted in MiamiTake Arabella to Taylor Swift‘s Eras Tour stops at Hard Rock Stadium.

The mother-daughter outing came weeks after the 34-year-old pop star announced she was coming endorse the Democratic candidate, vice president Kamala Harris. The revelation prompted Trump make a blunt statement to social media saying, “I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT!”