Lauryn Hill
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix.Collection: Successful
Anything that is not growing is dead.Collection: Growing
Every day is a lesson in focus for me, and not buying into the world's concept of what you have to be. I really try every day to be individual and not just in my style or my look or my music, but in my approach to life.Collection: Focus
Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you've just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.Collection: Doors
In my travels all over the world, I have come to realize that what distinguishes one child from another is not ability, but access. Access to education, access to opportunity, access to love.Collection: Children
Everyday is another chance to get things right.Collection: Hope
Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us diesCollection: Opinion
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.Collection: Unconditional Love
Wisdom is better than silver and goldCollection: Gold
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and GrowCollection: Way
It's more important to be righteous than to be right.Collection: Important
The work is constant. There's a time for rest, but I don't believe in getting comfortable just because everyone says you've arrived.Collection: Believe
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.Collection: Art
I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that's not like enough to slavery, I don't know.Collection: Trying
If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.Collection: People
Just because I have a guitar, it doesn't mean that changes me. I still rhyme, I still sing.Collection: Mean
I love being able to reach people directly, but in an ideal scenario, I would not have to rush the release of new music… but the message is still there.Collection: Love Is
I went to Jamaica for six months, and in Jamaica there was a lot of stillness.Collection: Jamaica
My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.Collection: Mother
I was unhappy with my life. I had acquired everything I thought I wanted, only to find out, This is it?Collection: Unhappy
I started to see that my concept of spirituality was totally wrong.Collection: Spirituality
Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.Collection: Reason
Heart, Desire, and Intensity and those have been the three words I kind of latched onto.Collection: Suicide
Never underestimate those who you scar.Collection: Scar
I find, even though it's raining, I just go outside. I look outside and I'm just so blessed to see it and to experience it, because for such a long time I was just indoors.Collection: Rain
My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.Collection: Mother
If you love something and if you're committed and diligent - the things happen!Collection: Committed
It's funny how money change a situation.Collection: Situation
I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.Collection: Identity
I get really afraid of those little comforts, those things that make us feel like we did something great, because I've done nothing. I've done nothing. I mean that sincerely.Collection: Mean
The sweetest thing I've ever known was like the kiss on the collarbone.Collection: Kissing
I get out, I get out of all your boxes.Collection: Boxes
We've got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.Collection: Protect
I'm trying to be a loving and caring mother, a loving and caring wife-to-be, a loving and caring daughter, a loving and caring friend, a responsible person. And every day is another opportunity for me to be successful at that.Collection: Daughter
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.Collection: Practice
My concept of successful living is escaping the matrix, as we've talked about. It has very little to do with what people think success is. I actually feel successful right now, even though I don't have an album out, or a video or a song on the radio, because I'm trying to be obedient to His will.Collection: Song
I've leaned on God for so long. "Hey, God, you just gave me this gift, and I'm just going to go out there and sing." But I'm realizing how much larger and how expansive my gift becomes when I actually pay attention to it and try to practice and try to perfect it.Collection: Practice
In my life the most influential people are people who are sort of brought to me, as opposed to people I seek out.Collection: People
I am up there onstage alone with that guitar. I don't have to consider no one else and whether they are comfortable. I need very little.Collection: Guitar
I knew his life deserved a chance/But everybody told me to be smart/Look at your career they said/Lauren, baby use your head/But instead I chose to use my heart.Collection: Baby
When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.Collection: Creativity
I had an economic system imposed on me.Collection: Economic
Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocityCollection: Reciprocity
I was very confused. I didn't understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that's not God.Collection: Confused
My whole life at a certain point was studio, hotel, stage, hotel, stage, studio, stage, hotel, studio, stage. I was expressing everything from my past, everything that I had experienced prior to that studio stage time, and it was like you have to go back to the well, in order to give someone something to drink. I felt like a cistern, dried up and like there was nothing more. And it was so beautiful.Collection: Beautiful