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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.

Lauryn Hill

Be honest, brutally honest. That is what’s going to maintain relationships.
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Honesty Maintain Relationship
It’s emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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Emotional Love Ourselves People Truth
I have inner peace. It’s a different person.
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Different Myself Peace Person
Anything that is not growing is dead.
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Death Growth
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
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Deep Gold Wisdom
Place your attention 6 inches above your crown. God is breathing in and out there.
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Attention Breathe God Yourself
You might win some, but you just lost one.
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Lost Oneself Win Yourself
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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Focus Lesson Life Music Myself World
If I’d known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.
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People White
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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Myself Thinking Time
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.
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Choice Defend Light
Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind.
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Kindness Myself Patience
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.
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Deep Improvement Ourselves World
Now I may have faith/ to make mountains fall/ But if I lack love/ then I am nothin’ at all.
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Deep Faith Love Myself
See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.
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Fantasy Myself Need People Reality
I am no longer going to become a fictional character to please people. That’s too much work.
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Character Myself People

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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