Jacquie Underdown > Jacquie's Quotes

“Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.”
― Philip José Farmer

“It seems that if I am afraid, then I am “stuck” with fear. But in fact I am chained to the fear only so long as I am trying to get away from it. On the other hand, when I do not try to get away I discover that there is nothing “stuck” or fixed about the reality of the moment.”
― Alan W. Watts, Wisdom Of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

“a man does not really begin to be alive until he has lost himself, until he has released the anxious grasp which he normally holds upon his life, his property, his reputation and position.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“Self-consciousness is a stoppage because it is like interrupting a song after every note so as to listen to the echo, and then feeling irritated because of the loss of rhythm.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“Whether we like it or not, change comes, and the greater the resistance, the greater the pain. Buddhism perceives the beauty of change, for life is like music in this: if any note or phrase is held for longer than its appointed time, the melody is lost. Thus Buddhism may be summed up in two phrases: “Let go!” and “Walk on!” Drop the craving for self, for permanence, for particular circumstances, and go straight ahead with the movement of life.”
― Alan W. Watts, Become What You Are

“Barrons rejects labels. You only know who you are in opposition to something, what you choose to fight for and against. The rest doesn’t matter.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“Death is the final chapter in a book you can’t unread. You keep waiting to feel like the person you were before that chapter ended. You never will.”
― Karen Marie Moning, Burned

“I’m not a privacy nut, and I don’t care that much if these organizations want to know where I go and what I buy. But what bothers me is how HARD they’re all working for that data, how much money they’re spending, and how they never admit that’s what they want. It means that information must be really valuable for some reason, and I just wonder to who and why.”
― Max Barry, Lexicon

“The most potent tool in maintaining the status quo is our belief that change is impossible.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“When people are content they are difficult to manoeuvre. We are perennially discontent and offered placebos as remedies.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“Now, I don’t want to come over all cynical, but doesn’t that imply that you could dispense with the entire democratic process and simply award power to the party with the most money in its campaign fund? Yes. It does. Maybe not always, just every, single time in history so far.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“A small minority cannot control an uncooperative majority, so they must be distracted, divided, tyrannized, or anesthetized into compliance.”
― Russell Brand, Revolution

“It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. No one really feels self-confident deep down because it's an artificial idea. Really, people aren't that worried about what you're doing or what you're saying, so you can drift around the world relatively anonymously: you must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from that idea that people are watching you.”
― Russell Brand

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“So, if you do find yourself doubting the choice that you’ve made to marry me, know that when I lose my way, which I most certainly will, that you will always remain to be the only person on this earth that can bring me back.”
― Lea Darragh, Almost Mine

“Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.”
― Stephen King

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do― to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.”
― Ryan Holiday, Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent

“As long as you are alive, you will either live to accomplish your own goals and dreams or be used as a resource to accomplish someone else's.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“Weak and overwhelmed individuals respond to others' success by attacking it.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“until you become completely obsessed with your mission, no one will take you seriously. Until the world understands that you're not going away—that you are 100 percent committed and have complete and utter conviction and will persist in pursuing your project—you will not get the attention you need and the support you want.”
― Grant Cardone, The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure

“She said forgiveness was about giving up the hope that my past could be any different.”
― Jacquie Underdown, Sweet From The Vine