Lauryn Hill

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

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

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

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.

Wake up, you’ve been sleeping. Take up your bed and walk. Stop blaming other people. Oh, it’s nobody else’s fault.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

True irreverence is disrespect for another man’s god.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Its proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence.

Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow.

There is something in the human spirit that will survive and prevail, there is a tiny and brilliant light burning in the heart of man that will not go out no matter how dark the world becomes.

Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas: I wish, however, that the instrument might be less apt to decay, and that signs might be permanent, like the things they denote.

Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

The soul’s emphasis is always right.

It is the privilege of any human work which is well done to invest the doer with a certain haughtiness. He can well afford not to conciliate, whose faithful work will answer for him.