Ascian Quotes & Sayings

What Richard Selzer, M.D. once wrote of surgery is true of therapy: only human love keeps this from being the act of two madmen. — Thomas Lewis

You that give new life to this planet, you that transcend logic, come. I am only an arrow. Fill your bow with me and let fly. — Rumi

I have no way of knowing whether you, who eventually will read this record, like stories or not. If you do not, no doubt you have turned these pages without attention. I confess that I love them. Indeed, it often seems to me that of all the good things in the world, the only ones humanity can claim for itself are stories and music; the rest, mercy, beauty, sleep, clean water and hot food (as the Ascian would have said) are all the work of the Increate. Thus, stories are small things indeed in the scheme of the universe, but it is hard not to love best what is our own - hard for me, at least. — Gene Wolfe

When the world is worth nothing, then heaven is worth something. I leave every Christian to judge by his own experience, whether we do not overlove the world more in prosperity than in adversity (374) [.] — Richard Baxter

If you had a special knack for finding things, it meant you owed the world to look. — Maggie Stiefvater

Growing up, I lived a moderate lifestyle with my family. — Liam Hemsworth

The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. — John Lennon

Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. — Jane Smiley

It comes out sounding too loud. Something about Davey makes me want to raise my voice and talk in all caps. Like, NO MATTER WHAT I'M SAYING I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW I'M HERE AND VERY EXCITED. — Kathleen Hale

The conservative assumes sickness as a necessity, and his social frame is a hospital, his total legislation is for the present distress, a universe in slippers and flannels, with bib and papspoon, swallowing pills and herb-tea. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place. — Karen Salmansohn