Amanda > Amanda's Quotes

“When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.”
― Ani DiFranco

“My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

“Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis

“i fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change...”
― ani difranco