Tupac Shakur Quotes

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

You have to go down before you can come out — that’s how these things always work.

It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it.

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself.

It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.

My family and I had to overcome a lot to get where we are today.

When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

When I started out, I struggled, and I was broke a lot. But I'm glad I struggled, and I'm glad I was broke a lot.

There were mornings when I just didn't want to get out of bed. But once again, I'm in an adverse situation and having to deal with something new and learn how to do it.

Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.

I've had to fight to improve my life. Nothing has come easily.

It is in the failures of our striving that we find ourselves, and it is then, in the rising above them and trying again, that we carry ourselves to the next level. If the runner stumbles, they get up and run again.

I don't even know who I am. All I know is that I am the sibling, daughter, sister, the friend of somebody, and I need to know who I am outside of that.

I still feel I am that 14-year-old kid, hungry and trying to find a way through life. That's what I'm trying to develop, trying to be good at something through boxing. But I feel like that young kid who's trying and trying.

What's helped me is my childhood, my tough upbringing. I learnt a lot from that; it helps with any problems I might encounter.

In life when you get tested, when you get rejected by everyone and when you get pushed aside, you actually get the best out of it. That has been a learning curve for me.

I've paved this road myself, and no one else has walked it the same exact way that I have. There are people that helped kick the door in, but it's really satisfying to be in a place where you know who you are and you've figured yourself out.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.

The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain.

It's not what you accomplish in life that matters; it's what you overcome.

The easy, gentle, and sloping path . . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.

View the events you consider obstacles as perfect opportunities to test your resolve and find your purpose.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.