We don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
LAURYN HILLWe don’t want people to have expectations of us, but then we have expectations of everybody else.
LAURYN HILLOnce you compromise yourself in one way, you compromise yourself in another way. And you’ve just opened the door to compromise, mediocrity, settling.
LAURYN HILLI 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.
LAURYN HILLThe 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.
LAURYN HILLBe honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
LAURYN HILLA 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.
LAURYN HILLPlace your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
LAURYN HILLWe 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.
LAURYN HILLNow I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
LAURYN HILLThink black love, think universal love. Just think love.
LAURYN HILLEvery 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.
LAURYN HILLSee no one loves you more than me and no one ever will.
LAURYN HILLI 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.
LAURYN HILLI was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.
LAURYN HILLDon’t be a hard rock when you really are a gem!
LAURYN HILLWe should constantly be aspiring to reach higher and higher and higher. We should never be comfortable where we are.
LAURYN HILL