“I pray to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear. And at the end of my prayers, they teach me how to listen.”

“I hated you because you reminded me of…how I once was…of what I lost.”

“I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.”

“I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.”

“Tell me what to avoid, what to seek, by what studies to strengthen my tottering mind, how I may rebuff the waves that strike me abeam and drive me from my course, by what means I may be able to cope with all my evils, and by what means I can be rid of the calamities that have plunged in upon me and those into which I myself have plunged. Teach me how to bear the burden of sorrow without a groan on my part, and how to bear prosperity without making others groan; also, how to avoid waiting for the ultimate and inevitable end, and to beat a retreat of my own free will, when it seems proper to me to do so.”

“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”

“I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.”

“friends toward me or are friends to me. But they're not my friends, because what I learned is that fear is stronger than love.“ Tupac Shakur 1990s, Vibe magazine interview (June 1996) Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June”

“What an obituary. When I go down into the ground at last, as God is my judge, I pray my best-beloved may have better to say of me than, “He didn’t hit me.””

“One man prays thus: How shall I be able to lie with that woman? Do thou pray thus: How shall I not desire to lie with her? Another prays: How shall I be released from this? Another prays: How shall I not desire to be released? Another thus: How shall I not lose my little son? Thou thus: How shall I not be afraid to lose him? In fine, turn thy prayers this way, and see what comes.”