Understimated Quotes & Sayings

Once you educate yourself, you're left with choices. — Yvon Chouinard

It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness. — Roger L'Estrange

There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted this album to have threads of my past to enrich the topics I wanted to address about aging. — Brooke Waggoner

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. — Kurt Vonnegut

Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? — Francis Bacon

They eat, they crap, they sleep, and if they're crying they need to do one of the three and they're having trouble doing it. Real simple. — Matthew McConaughey

Step off the road. Build yourself a brand new path. — Maya Angelou

Words that arise spontaneously out of the state of presence are charged with spiritual power: the power to awaken. — Eckhart Tolle

Eternal life does not violate the laws of physics. After all, we only die because of one word: "error." The longer we live, the more errors there are that are made by our bodies when they read our genes. That means cells get sluggish. The body doesn't function as well as it could, which is why the skin ages. Then organs eventually fail, so that's why we die. — Michio Kaku

The drop grows happy by losing itself in the river. — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

By His gracious condescension God became man and is called man for the sake of man and by exchanging His condition for ours revealed the power that elevates man to God through his love for God and brings God down to man because of His love for man. By this blessed inversion, man is made God by divinization and God is made man by hominization. For the Word of God and God wills always and in all things to accomplish the mystery of His embodiment. — Maximus The Confessor

There were times when it was better to beg forgiveness than ask for identification. Reed — Evan Currie

The teacher has not taught until the student has learned. — Howard G. Hendricks

I've been an animal rights activist and a vegan for 28 years. The entire time, I've asked myself: How do I best advance an animal rights agenda? — Moby

In the same way that individual women are often underestimated, a movement of women is also understimated, but the truth is that, if people realize someone is willing to talk about these deep and daily concerns, they show up. — Gloria Steinem