Kasichs Freudian Quotes & Sayings

Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in His actuality. Or rather, since causality flows from actuality, let us say that He confers the one in conferring the other, so that to the Christian mind the physical world in which we live offers a face which is the reverse of its physicism itself, a face where all that was read on the one side in terms of force, energy and law, is now read, on the other in terms of participations and analogies of the Divine Being. The Christian world takes on the character of a sacred world with a relation to God inscribed in its very being and every law that rules its functioning. — Etienne Gilson

For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing. — Nancy Kress

But sometimes the pieces fall together the way they want to, and you can't change the story; all you can do is try to ride it out. — Seanan McGuire

Poetry, I'm often told, is something made of words. I think it really goes the other way around: words are made of poetry. — Robert Bringhurst

If you can't change the world with chocolate chip cookies, how can you change the world? — Pat Murphy

When you see a person for the first time, you're not seeing him, but seeing yourself and your whole life in his mirror. — Debasish Mridha

I'm not convinced that what are traditionally considered to be male energies or qualities or female energies or qualities really have as much to do with gender as many people think they do. — Andrew Cohen

Pedantry and mastery are opposite attitudes toward rules. To apply a rule to the letter, rigidly, unquestioningly, in cases where it fits and in cases where it does not fit, is pedantry. [ ... ] To apply a rule with natural ease, with judgment, noticing the cases where it fits, and without ever letting the words of the rule obscure the purpose of the action or the opportunities of the situation, is mastery. — George Polya

I'll wait for you under the bluebells. I'll be there always. — Kim Harrison