Lauryn Hill

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

Don’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!

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

Wisdom is better than silver and gold. I was hopeless, now I’m on hope road.

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

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.

If thou wouldn’t conquer thy weakness thou must not gratify it.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Death then, being the way and condition of life, we cannot love to live if we cannot bear to die.

Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can’t blame them for that, can you?

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

A toddling little girl is a center of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other.

The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

When you’ve got them by their wallets, their hearts and minds will follow.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

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

If I cannot brag of knowing something, then I brag of not knowing it; at any rate, brag.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

As you get older, you realize that no one has all the answers. It turns out that life is an exercise in living with the certainty of uncertainty. – Jason Kilar

What drives me to be who I am, to do all that I do, is not what words will be engraved for my epitaph. What drives me to be who I am, to do what I do, is not vanity, is not for adulation in the eyes of others. What drives me is my own desire to be better; to be happy. When I am dead and buried, the words above will not bring me back to life, I choose to live out my epitaph, and not just for it to be a collection of words someone has chosen to define me.

The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.