Lauryn Hill Quotes

I consider myself a crayon... I may not be your favorite color but one day you'll need me to complete your picture.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.

We should always be aspiring to know more, and to better ourselves, and to improve ourselves. To improve ourselves, because that's how we improve the world around us, by working within us.

And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

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

Everything we do should be a result of our gratitude for what God has done for us.

Love is an incredible thing but we don't know love like we should. Unconditional love we don't know it because if a person stops stimulating us, we stop loving them.

I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That's too much work.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

Loving you is like a Song I replay every 3 Minutes and 30 Seconds of every Day.

To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies

It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in.

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

Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.

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

I have inner peace. It's a different person.

Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin' at all

I got Moxie, I'm so damn foxy Industry try to block me like cops and paparazzi.

You might win some, but you just lost one.

A friend once said, and I found to be true,That everyday people, they lie to God too,So what makes you think, that they won't lie to you.

If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

Everybody has a choice. I am not here to shove my light down everybody's throat. For those who don't want it, I have nothing to defend.

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 think everything happens in time. There's a time for everything. There's a time to be in a group, and there's a time to be solo.

See no one loves you more than me...and no one ever will

A lot of us are too busy focusing on what we think people want to hear, as opposed to just saying what's in our hearts.

It could all be so simple, but you'd rather make it hard, loving you is like a battle, and we both end up with scars

I had to confront my fears and master my every demonic thought about inferiority, insecurity, or the fear of being black, young, and gifted in this Western culture.

Never be afraid of not knowing. Find out.

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.

Everything is everything What is meant to be, will be After winter, must come spring Change, it comes eventually

Miscommunication leads to complication.

Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.

We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.

Anything that is not growing is dead.

It's more important to be righteous than to be right.

The only help I need to live, is unprofessional. The only wealth I have to give, is not material. And if you need much more than that, I'm not available.

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.

I get out, I get out of all your boxes. I get out, you can't hold me in these chains. I'll get out. Father free me from this bondage. Knowin' my condition is the reason I must change

Consequence is no coincidence.

Sometimes we all need to take time and give thanks.

Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity

You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.

Tomorrow, our seeds will grow. All we need is dedication.

I don't know anybody that's not emotionally unstable or schizophrenic.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

We call ourselves creators and we just copy.