Lauryn Hill

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

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

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

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.

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

I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mountains will go into labour, and a silly little mouse will be born.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves, but deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.

The fatal trait of the times is the divorce between religion and morality.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Surrender is faith that the power of love can accomplish anything… even when you can not foresee the outcome.

We bust build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.