In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
LAURYN HILLSee fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
More Lauryn Hill Quotes
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It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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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.
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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.
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Once you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
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Consequence is no coincidence.
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From the first time someone says, Who do you think you are? we learn how to repress.
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It’s more important to be righteous than to be right.
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Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.
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We should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
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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
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We’ve got to protect the music and make sure it never gets exploited.
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Anything that is not growing is dead.
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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.
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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.
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