Lauryn Hill

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’.

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

Tomorrow is always another day to make things right.

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

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

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

What makes you different or weird. That’s your strength.

If one cannot get along without a mirror, even in shaving oneself, how can one reconstruct oneself or one’s life, without seeing oneself in the mirror of literature?

My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time.

It doesn’t have to take over your life, it doesn’t have to define you as a person, it’s just important that you ask for help. It’s not a sign of weakness.

The first thing to do is be happy with yourself and appreciate your body-only then should you try to change things about yourself.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.

I do an hour’s yoga and go running every day. Then I see a picture of myself and I still look like a skinny, potbellied idiot – and I thought I had turned into this superhunk!

You can’t eat beauty, it doesn’t sustain you. What is fundamentally beautiful is compassion, for yourself and those around you. That kind of beauty enflames the heart and enchants the soul.

I want to be age appropriate. I don’t want to be that girl you see walking away and she looks 25 and then she turns around and she looks 90.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I want to be proactive and focus on maintaining my health and happiness and have decide that the best way forward is to take some time off.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

At the end of the day, it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks, as long as you’re happy.

When I look at myself in the first grade and I look at myself now, I’m basically the same. The temperament is not that different.