Tupac Shakur Quotes

I learned quite early on in life that we are all two people. And one of those people none of us will ever know.

There' s a duality in myself, and it's also what I try and instill in my roles.

I now know myself to be a person of weakness and strength, liability and giftedness, darkness and light. I now know that to be whole means to reject none of it but to embrace all of it.

Everybody's a work in progress. I'm a work in progress. I mean, I've never arrived... I'm still learning all the time.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

My strength and my weakness are twins in the same womb.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

It's a big theme in my life, learning about myself and being a better person. I'm a work in progress; I have revelations every day.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

The roles that have come into my life have taught me - and in that time period maybe I didn't even know it, but whatever came up or whatever it is that you have to express at that time, has benefitted me in a particular way.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.

I want to learn and challenge myself and grow.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

There have been many people whom I have admired, emulated and even modeled parts of my life after. I study how they do things, and then I go through a period of 'trying on' those same thinking patterns and behaviors. After awhile, what is not essentially me falls away while the useful parts remain.

It's always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

I'm learning a lot about myself being alone, and doing what I'm doing.

Everything in life is about timing. I've been able to have my experiences and learn from them and kind of figure out the thing that works for me and is best for me, and that's all I can really say.

If you play it safe every time, then you're missing the best part of acting. You haven't learned anything about your humanity.

My life is an open pamphlet.

One of the main focuses of my training sessions is to help individuals find their unique voices in the learning process. We all have our strengths, our weaknesses, our styles of learning, our personalities. Developing introspective sensitivity to these issues is critical to long-term success.

We have our insides and our outsides, and I find the struggles between the two, as well as the occasions of harmony between the two, fascinating.

There is a lot of learning I have to do and a lot of growing up I have to do.