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“The higher the goal, the harder the climb, but after that the bigger the muscle the, smarter the mind.”
― Big Sean

“The business of trying to please everybody else is a business you’ll never be successful at. Even if you do please everyone, then you have to ask, will you be satisfied?”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Once I got to talk to music legend Berry Gordy. We were at a party celebrating the anniversary of Motown, and soon after I met him, we got to talking about what it takes to succeed. “Man, I failed at everything in life until I was thirty-three,” he said. “I failed at every single thing, man. Hundreds of things—magazines, a bunch of other projects, too. It took me all those times of failing to make something actually work for me.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“I’m learning to relax more, to say, “Hey, man, whatever’s meant to be will be—and whatever isn’t won’t. It’s okay; enjoy it.” Because when you’re enjoying something and you put joy into it, I feel like that’s when the magic comes.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Your relationship with the universe requires clear communication, just like a romantic or business relationship.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Einstein said, “You never fail until you stop trying.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“You should just focus on doing your best, and the legacy part is something that takes care of itself. If you do things for your legacy, you might not be doing them for the right reasons.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“You have to look for your blessings and then really appreciate them.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Ironically, the only way to make time feel like it’s stretching out is to slow down and fully appreciate every minute.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“feel like having fun, whatever you’re doing, is the most important ingredient for success.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“when you’re an artist and your name is on it, it has to be your soul going into the work.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“I assess my situation, whatever it is, and position myself for what’s going to come next. To go to the next place, you have to strategize. You can’t sit still and expect your life to change.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“I looked down at that invisible bridge of faith, and I knew that I would get to the other side of it. I just had to keep walking.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Sometimes I talked to the universe like it was a person. I didn’t demand anything. I just explained why I’d love more money—so I could have more positive experiences, so I could move to LA and be closer to the business that I was trying to pursue, so I could take care of my family and give some money to my mom, so I could stop spending all the money my grandma saved for me to go to college on studio sessions. My grandma saved that money for me for her whole life, after all. I told the universe I didn’t want all her work and saving for me to be for nothing.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“If we just accept that whatever’s meant for us is coming our way, we don’t have to necessarily worry about how it’s going to happen. We just have to put our attention on the intention and ask, “What can I do to water the seed?”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Perhaps they were somebody else’s standards and not relevant to your life. A lot of us are working too hard to live by other people’s ideas of what we should be doing.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“You get in the meditative state in order to be more present in your life; you don’t skip big parts of your life in order to meditate.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Working out is probably one of the most productive things I do with my life. And that only came when I made the decision that there was no other option.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“When I figure out where the negative feelings are coming from, I say, “I return this energy to the earth with light and love attached to it.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Nothing is permanent, not the good or the bad. And wherever I am, I’m still going to have the opportunity to restructure, regroup, attract the necessary people in my life to help make things happen.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“All I could think was, look how God was working in your favor and you didn’t even know because you had these previous expectations that might not have been useful to you.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Acceptance means seeing clearly where you are right now and also acknowledging that you have the power to change any situation that you’re in, no matter how possible or impossible other people say that is.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Trusting yourself is like working out any other muscle. The more you trust your instincts, the more you learn to take what other people say with a grain of salt. Then it’s always your own decision, even when you listen to others. Even if you make mistakes, it’s still better when you’re being true to yourself.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“Once I took the pressure off myself, I started having fun again.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace

“We should use forgiveness as a tool for freedom.”
― Big Sean, Go Higher: Five Practices for Purpose, Success, and Inner Peace