Lauryn Hill

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

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

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

Let’s love ourselves then we can’t fail to make a better situation tomorrow. Our seeds will grow, all we need is dedication.

All of humanity is living in a dream world, but suffering real consequences.

I wrote these words for everyone who struggles in their youth, who won’t accept deception instead of what is truth.

It’s not burn baby burn, but learn, baby, learn, so that you can earn, baby, earn.

Excess in Apparel is another costly Folly. The very Trimming of the vain World would cloath all the naked one.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Say a word, say a thousand to me on the telephone and I shall choose the wrong one to cling to as though you had said it after long deliberation when only I provoked it from you, I will cling to it from among a thousand, to be provoked and hurl it back with something I mean no more than you meant that, something for you to cling to and retreat clinging to.

The nearest way to glory is to strive to be what you wish to be thought to be.

The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last.

Language is the archives of history.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

She was taken by surprise at quite how breathtaking the twinkle in her eyes was. She listened and watched attentively, magnetized. As butterflies danced on her lips, her own stomach felt butterflies.

That which builds is better than that which is built.

The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance.

Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words.

To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite human beings, Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one’s self?