amara’s most recent Quotables

Love is for everyone. The good, the bad, the disabled, the mad. Show more love to someone who doesn't understand what it is and free them from the pain and isolation that surrounds them.

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.

To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.

Activism is my rent for living on the planet.

You go through the gate. If the gate’s closed you go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole-vault. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in.

“Men spend the best parts of their lives earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it.”

They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night, and in between does what he wants to do.

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of [another]... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results.

They say: you don't know what you've got until it's gone. Truth: You knew exactly what you had, you just never thought you'd lose it.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Don't mind anything anyone tells you about anyone else. Judge everyone and everything for yourself.

Some of us give up on life with only a resigned sigh. Others fight a little then lose hope. Still others—and I am one of those—never give up. We fight and fight and fight. We fight no matter the cost of battle, the losses we take, the improbability of success. We fight to the very end. It’s not a question of courage. It’s something constitutional, an inability to let go.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

A strong woman takes risks, takes compliments and tries not to take herself too seriously.

We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

It's not my job to make you a better man and I don't give a s**t if I've made you a better man. It's not a f**king woman's job to be consumed and invaded and spat out so that some f**king man can evolve.