290 Quotes by Lauryn Hill

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.

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.

Whenever we submit our will to someone else’s opinion, a part of us dies.

I wouldn’t try to put myself in a box or put God in a box.

God teaches me about reality, so when he tells me to do something, I do, because I’m led to.

I was hopeless, now I’m on Hope Road.

I was very confused. I didn’t understand the difference between rebellion against God and rebellion against the system that’s not God.

The honor to me has less to do with the award. To me that translates in the relationship that I have with the audience, and if my music is helpful to them, that’s the award.

Reality is easy. It’s deception that’s the hard work.