Xs Energy Quotes & Sayings

The test of man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?'. The final test of religion is not religiousness, but love: not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged. It could not be otherwise. For the withholding of love is the negation of the Spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain.
Pastor Henry Drummond, 1890 — Paulo Coelho

Tell me what you want, my love," he rasped through parted lips. "Tell me now."
"You, Staff, you. Forever and always. Please."
"Only Staff?"
"Yes, yes. Please, my love. Put out the fire."
"But first I have to fan it brighter," he said low, and moved into her instantly. — Karen Harper

In an individualistic culture, the narcissist is God's gift to the world. In a collectivist society, the narcissist is God's gift to the collective. — Christopher Lasch

I went to yoga for six months straight, but that was about five years ago! I've been trying to get back. I probably could've seen the President five times, it'd be easier than it has been to get back to yoga! — Mike Ness

Carrots might be good for my eyes, but they won't straighten out the curveball. — Carl Furillo

I've had my fill of cool, Willow. These days it's kindness, honesty, and stability that impress me. — Lisa Unger

As we drove I remembered how I had told myself I would make Simon happy. I didn't feel the same person. For I now knew that I had been stuffing myself up with a silly fairy tale, that I could never mean to him what Rose had meant. I think I knew it first as I watched his face while he listened to her singing, and then more and more, as he talked about the whole wretched business - not angrily or bitterly, but quietly and without ever saying a word against Rose. But most of all I knew it because a change in myself. Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you more than suffering yourself can.
Long before we got back to the castle, with all my heart and for my own heart's ease as well as his, I would have given her back to him if I could. — Dodie Smith

Everyone is a potential murderer-in everyone there arises from time to time the wish to kill-though not the will to kill. — Agatha Christie

A good expository paper will benefit far more people than most research papers. A good text is worth a thousand of the usual trifles that appear in research journals. — Morris Kline

If we want to find the manna hidden in our vocation, let us restrict and confine all our desires within it. — Vincent De Paul

I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika. — Leon Max

Truthiness is what you want the facts to be as opposed to what the facts are. What feels like the right answer as opposed to what reality will support. — Stephen Colbert

There are always different things that can happen and I Marjane Satrapi don't want to yell at other people. It's easier if we yell at each other. We're still friends, so obviously it worked out. — Vincent Paronnaud

Plant no tree sooner than the vine. — Alcaeus

I was actually born in New York City, but my family moved to Atlantic City when I was five, this being my dad's home town, so I think that qualifies me as a Jersey resident if not a bona fide native. — Sharon Kay Penman