Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
Lauryn HillRead
I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness
Interpretation
True happiness comes from love, not material possessions.
In this quote, Lauryn Hill emphasizes that material wealth and possessions are meaningless without the presence of love in one's life. She suggests that a lack of love leads to an absence of true happiness, highlighting the importance of emotional connections over material wealth.
In practice
In a motivational speech about the importance of relationships, one could quote this to emphasize love's role in happiness.
Reality is easy. It's deception that's the hard work.
You could get the money, you can get the power, but keep your eyes on the final hour.
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow
Now the skies could fall _x000D_ Not even if my boss should call _x000D_ The world it seems so very small _x000D_ 'Cause nothing even matters at all
We can't plan life. All we can do is be available for it.
I don't feel like my money or my success defines me. I've always been very happy just bein' me.
Women are like tricks by sleight of hand, Which, to admire, we should not understand
Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
Is not the most erotic part of the body wherever the clothing affords a glimpse?
I won't do this movie because I don't believe the love story," she told Selznick. "The heroine is an intellectual woman, and an intellectual woman simply can't fall in love so deeply.
The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.
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