When you smoke the herb, it reveals you to yourself.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you.

How do I confront aging? With a wonder and a terror. Yeah, I’ll say that. Wonder and terror.

None of the records I make are ever a deliberate construction – they’re always an expression of who I am at the time and where I am in my life.

Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it’s a good indication of what you’re made of.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

We have the tendency to run away from suffering and to look for happiness. But, in fact, if you have not suffered, you have no chance to experience real happiness.

Remember, we are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience.

As long as you blame someone or something else – something outside you that’s bigger than you are – as the source of your problems, the problems won’t get solved.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

Life’s too short to hang out with people who aren’t resourceful.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

I talk to myself all the time. Just make sure you answer.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

You simply have to accept that your demons are a part of you.

My weak spot is laziness. Oh, I have a lot of weak spots: cookies, croissants.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

I’m tired of fighting. I’ve always known that I can’t be an action star all my life.

In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

You should never give up your inner self.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

You might not have the things you want, but if you check carefully, you got all you need.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

The truth is, I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let men sometimes fool themselves.

I’m only as good as my last word, my last hook, my last bridge.

Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.

I look at where I’m at today and realize that most of my success is owed to the mentors that was in my life.

I’ve been searching for ways to heal myself, and I’ve found that kindness is the best way.

What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

Forget the past.

It is important for you to know who you are and who you may become. It is more important than what you do, even as vital as your work is and will be.

People say you have to hit rock bottom, and, I can tell you, almost dying is as rock bottom as it gets.

In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

I briefly did therapy, but after a while, I realised it is just like a farmer complaining about the weather. You can’t fix the weather – you just have to get on with it.

Key is never be afraid of being yourself. Never!

It was my delusion and naivety that brought me here.

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

The stories are not autobiographical, but they’re personal in that way. I seem to know only the things that I’ve learned. Probably some things through observation, but what I feel I know surely is personal.