I Can't Make This Up: Life Lessons

by Kevin Hart

Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose how you interpret each chapter, but your interpretation writes the next chapter.

Your life today is the sum total of your choices. So if you’re not happy with it, look back at your choices and start making different ones.

You are somebody. You matter. And no one is allowed to take away your right to your property, your right to your safety, or your right to be yourself. Those are things that should be defended.

It turns out that the things I hated most as a child are the same things that serve me the most as an adult.

you’ll discover that everyone has their own problems, and they’re usually worse than yours. Because your problems are designed specifically for you, with the specific purpose of helping you grow.

Having nothing to prove is the most freeing thing in the world. Rather than constantly defending your ego, you can have a sense of humor about your shortcomings.

The unsuccessful get halfway to the finish line, then turn around. The successful get halfway, then keep going. Both run the same distance, but only one makes it to the finish line.

Though people say to live in the moment, each moment leads to other moments. So treat each moment like a seed, and care for it so that something beautiful can grow from it.

All I remember about the filming that day was that when I climbed the ramp to get to eye level with Sofía Vergara, I fell off. That was my first and last time smoking with Snoop.

I guess that’s like “smoking with Willie”… not for everyone.

I chose not to lose my mom, and instead to gain an angel. In my mind, my heart, and my life, she is still completely present to this day—and as wise, compassionate, and stubborn as ever.

Afterward, I pulled him aside. Actually, I don’t pull people aside. I got a loud mouth, so it was more like a public announcement. “I’m