Lauryn Hill

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

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

We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.

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’.

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

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

There were no role models, there were no other people I knew who were dealing with the same issues that I was dealing with. I had no idea if this was a stage I was going through or not. But I go to the draft board in Brooklyn and I fill out the form and there was a question that said ‘Do you have homosexual tendencies?’ and I check yes. But where-ever I was on line I’d see people I went to high school with and I was afraid of anyone knowing this about me so I kept on falling back into line and falling back into line. If you said you had homosexual tendencies they sent you to a psychiatrist. He said ‘I see here you’ve checked the box?’ And I said ‘yup’. He said ‘So do you think you’d have a problem serving in the armed forces?’ I said well you know ‘So many men.’ And I was out of the service.

He was also efficient and gave me his four-step formula for success: 1. Get in. 2. Get it done. 3. Get it done right. 4. And get out.

Fear is the great extinguisher of dreams… Conversely, it can be your best mentor and source of motivation.

Courage is facing your fears. Stupidity is fearing nothing.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

The harder I work, the luckier I get.

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little.

Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don’t find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn’t make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.

I have learned that what is essential can sometimes be invisible to the eye. That’s where discernment comes in.

Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.