Ben Harper Quotes

Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

What enables me to believe in anything is hope.

You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life.

Music is the last true voice of the human spirit. It can go beyond language, beyond age, and beyond color straight to the mind and heart of all people.

Every moral has a story, every story has and end. Every battle has its glory, and its consequence.

You can't just say 'I love you,' you have to live 'I love you.'

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love.

I want to try to be who I am today, not who I was yesterday.

Life's the longest picture you're ever gonna take.

As long as someone else controls your history the truth shall remain just a mystery

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

My choice is what I choose to do, And if I'm causing no harm, it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be, And if you're causin' no harm, then you're alright with me. If you don't like my fire, then don't come around, 'cause I'm gonna burn one down. Yes, I'm gonna burn one down. Herb the gift from the earth, And what's from the earth is of the greatest worth. So before you knock it try it first, Oh, you'll see it's a blessing and not a curse.

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done.

When you have everything, you have everything to lose.

When your whole world is shaken from all the risks we have taken, Dance with me, dance with me into the colors of the dusk.

We've all got stardust in our bones.

A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

Hiding is not an option and you're going to step out and you're going to make mistakes. I'm going to look stupid. I'm going to say things I want to retract. I'm going to sing notes I wish I could have back, there's just no getting around the stumble, but if you stumble enough times you're going to fall off the edge and have no choice but to freakin' fly.

It's so hard to do and so easy to say but sometimes you just have to walk away

The spirit is what guides my life, and I'm humbly on my knees in thanks for guidance and direction every day. But God is not something to be preached, it's something to be lived.

Of all the states of emotion I've ever been in, music takes me to the strongest state of emotion the quickest, of any other sort of state of mind I've ever been in or been put in by any substance or circumstance, music brings me to an emotional state of being faster than anything I've ever known

You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.

These eyes weren't made for crying, this love wasn't made to waste. These arms weren't made for battle, but to share in your embrace.