Underranked Quotes & Sayings

That's clear about the end of my other life, how I kept saying 'I can do this' even when I knew I couldn't, even when I knew I was fucked, I was dead ass fucked in the pouring rain. — Stephen King

Sometimes the air is so thick with your judgment that its clouds obstruct your vision. — Sally Hanan

It's very important for us all to understand that we are interconnected and we need to hold hands together, especially when the going gets tough. — Michelle Yeoh

Our inner experience is that which we think, feel, remember, perceive, sense, decide, plan and predict. These experiences are actually mental actions, or mental activity (Van der Hart et al., 2006). Mental activity, in which we engage all the time, may or may not be accompanied by behavioral actions. It is essential that you become aware of, learn to tolerate and regulate, and even change major mental actions that affect your current life, such as negative beliefs, and feelings or reactions to the past the interfere with the present. However, it is impossible to change inner experiences if you are avoiding them because you are afraid, ashamed or disgusted by them. Serious avoidance of you inner experiences is called experiential avoidance (Hayes, Wilson, Gifford, & Follettte, 1996), or the phobia of inner experience (Steele, Van der Hart, & Nijenhuis, 2005; Van der Hart et al., 2006). — Suzette Boon

Sometimes the books most restrained about sex, even deeply scandalized by it, can whisper to us with the greatest hidden force. I am a huge admirer of the recently deceased, always underranked Evan S. Connell. — Allan Gurganus

Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose? — Danielle Paige

Flowers grow beneath her feet, but she is not dead at all. The years have not diminished the Rice Mother. I see her, fierce and magical. Stop despairing and call to her, and you will see, she will come bearing a rainbow of dreams. — Rani Manicka

Saying you believe in yourself will not guarantee your success, but saying you don't believe in yourself will guarantee your failure. — John C. Maxwell

Memory is that trick by which we see the awful events of the past loom over the good, like mountains over mouse. We don't recall life as it was. Instead, we remember what was different, frightening, or strange, and we turn our lives into the fun-house mirror images of the truth. — Jamie Kain

Sometimes you want to make your own experiences. — Martina Hingis

A child is born on that day, and at that hour when the celestial rays are in mathematical harmony with his individual Karma. His horoscope is a challenging portrait, revealing his unalterable past and its probable future result. But the natal chart can be rightly interpreted only by men of intuitive wisdom - These are few. — Sri Yukteswar Giri

I know what other people think about me," Rusty told her. " 'That Rusty,' they say. 'Charming and handsome,' they say first, of course - they're not blind. Then they add, 'All the ambition and drive of a chocolate sundae.' — Sarah Rees Brennan