Xantis Quotes & Sayings

By choosing your thoughts, and by selecting which emotional currents you will release and which you will reinforce, you determine the quality of your Light. You determine the effects that you will have upon others, and the nature of the experiences of your life. — Gary Zukav

I thought you weren't afraid." "I never am
but I won't throw my life away just to show one man I'm not. — F Scott Fitzgerald

Metal is from the earth, he thought as he scrutinized. From below: from that realm which is the lowest, the most dense. Land of trolls and caves, dank, always dark. Yin world, in its most melancholy aspect. World of corpses, decay and collapse. Of feces. All that has died, slipping and disintegrating back down layer by layer. The daemonic world of the immutable; the time-that-was.
And yet, in the sunlight, the silver triangle glittered. It reflected light. Fire, Mr. Tagomi thought. Not dank or dark object at all. Not heavy, weary, but pulsing with life. The high realm, aspect of yang: empyrean, ethereal. As befits work of art. Yes, that is artist's job: takes mineral rock from dark silent earth transforms it into shining light-reflecting form from sky.
Has brought the dead to life. Corpse turned to fiery display; the past had yielded to the future. — Philip K. Dick

If you don't decide what you will do with the rest of your life, someone else will decide it for you. — Robin Hobb

I've learnt from experience that a painting isn't finished when you put down your brush - that's when it starts. The public reaction is what supplies meaning and value. Art comes alive in the arguments you have about it. — Banksy

I always do the contrary of what my coaches tell me. — Bode Miller

Be careful, little killer. The Fates can fuck with you in ways you can't even imagine. — Larissa Ione

Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour's meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step.
I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight? — W. Somerset Maugham

Our world may have changed, but the importance of integrity has not. — Frank Sonnenberg

I don't know the real answer, my answer to anything which is essentially human relations is education. Whatever the answer is, education must be its measured component and if you try to educate with generosity not with triumphalism I think sometimes it works, especially young people, that's why I teach, I've been teaching all my life. — Elie Wiesel

Meanwhile the clouds are white & the sky is all blue. Why so much God? Why not a little for men. — Clarice Lispector

'Never give in' was my mindset. — Arlen Specter

I'm just as big a fool as the rest of them. — Stephanie Perkins

I didn't know if he really meant talk, make out, or something else completely, but I'd be happy with any of them. — Jennifer Estep

Now you can start paying for it with money instead of blood. — Kenneth Eade