Lauryn Hill

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

That strong mother doesn’t tell her cub ‘Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you’. She says, ‘Toughen up, this is reality we are living in’.

We can’t plan life. All we can do is be available for it.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny.

The only wealth I have to give is not material and if you need much more than that, I’m not available.

The only way to know is to live, learn, and grow.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

The basis of good manners is self-reliance.

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

The future is purchased by the present.

My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.

He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.

To know that we know what we know, and that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Be humble. It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another’s air with another’s breath, and is accountable for every moment of time and can call nothing its own, but is absolutely a tenant at will of the great Lord of heaven and earth.

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each. Let them be your only diet, drink, and botanical medicines.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

A wicked fellow is the most pious when he takes to it. He’ll beat you all at piety.

This is the comfort of friends, that though they may be said to die, yet their friendship and society are, in the best sense, ever present, because immortal.