Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

I’ve always felt like there was a lot of hype around me even when there wasn’t. I felt like everyone was talking about me even when no one was talking about me.

What interests me in life is curiosity, challenges, the good fight with its victories and defeats.

I don’t have emotional needs, only physical ones.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

One mustn’t close one’s eyes to difficulty and to shortcomings; the more one recognizes them, the less they upset one.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I was lousy in school. Real screwed-up. A moron. I was antisocial and didn’t bother with the other kids. A really bad student. I didn’t have any brains. I didn’t know what I was doing there. That’s why I became an actor.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.

We all have two lives: an inner life and an outer life. Your inner life is your soul life, which includes your mind, will and emotions. Your outer life is your physical life. And while God cares about every detail of your life, He is more concerned with your inner life than your outer life.

When you realize who you live for, and who’s important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I’m gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it – and I lived it for me.

The game is changing with songs like ‚Earned It‘ as opposed to it changing me.

I really have no interest in myself.

The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

My life has been very full.

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.

I had my moments of being humiliated, and then I had moments of doing something humiliating. I’m glad I lived out both roles.

I like policy. It’s why I decided to enter government. The other thing I like about government – you have good days, you have bad days, but you never have a boring day, and that’s important to me.

I love my friends and my past, and it’s made me who I am.

‚Perfection‘ to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, ‚I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.‘ I was a hundred percent, like the meter was at the top. There was nothing else I could have done. You know? Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That’s perfection.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

The people who truly know me know what I’m like. There have been people who try to say things that aren’t fair, and I check them. And then they don’t like me because I checked them.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

Plenty of people wish to become devout, but no one wishes to be humble.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

In the West, as well as some other parts of the world, the personal sense of ego tends to predominate, whereas in other areas, there is a more collective sense of ego. This collective ego emphasizes the ‚we‘ rather than the ‚I.‘

My career as Nipsey Hussle is based on my life as Ermias Asghedom.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

My life is my argument.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.

My life is mine to remember.

I fear that many a man’s good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing – hopefully.

I used to get the feeling, and sometimes I still get it, that sometimes I was fooling somebody; I don’t know who or what, maybe myself.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.