Lauryn Hill

How you gonna win if you ain’t right within?

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

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

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

My emancipation don’t fit your equation.

Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

My favorite nightcap, after all this time, is still the cocktail of you.

Rome – the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar.

Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon

One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

When I was praised I lost my time, for instantly I turned around to look at the work I had thought slightly of, and that day I made nothing new.

Danger – if you meet it promptly and without flinching – you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

The habit of looking on the best side of every event is worth more than a thousand pounds a years.

Plan backwards as well as forward. Set objectives and trace back to see how to achieve them. You may find that no path can get you there. Plan forward to see where your steps will take you, which may not be clear or intuitive.