Love is the way.
S5 E1Fallen Angel
S5 E2Chakram
I can't have you dying again and not have you know.
Know what?
Oh brother, I had this all worked out in my head and now...
Joxer, will you hurry? Please.
I love you. I'm in love with you.
I can’t help wondering if we’re doing the right thing. Restoring this darkness, my violence. Can that really be good?
I think it’s vital. I know that sounds strange coming from me. I think you have to know the darkest part of yourself to be whole.
But this way I harm no one.
But Xena, what about the people who harm others? Xena, you have this balance of lightness and darkness. Without both of those, the very best in you is defenseless.
S5 E3Sucession
Who are you?
MMavican
The name is Mavican. I'm looking for Xena.
What do you want with her?
MMavican
I want to kill her. And I understand that killing you is the best way to meet her.
You know I’m surprised that you didn’t consider it. What he said..
Xena, what he said doesn’t matter. I know you. Sometimes I wonder if you really know me but I know what’s in your heart.
You know more than I do. Gabrielle, I do see you. Sometimes I have trouble facing it but I promise I will.
*sigh* You don’t know how much that means. Maybe Ares did some good after all, huh?
I tell you what.
Au! God..
The next bad guy we come across is all yours. The next seven little bad guys we’ll come across are all yours.
Little? Is that a crack about my height?
No, they’re just harder for me to reach ghaha.
Yeah, well I guess that makes sense.
Yeah, yeah.
Good strategy.
Jup.
S5 E4Animal Attraction
It's impossible, i cannot be pregnant. If you weren't such a quack,you'd know that getting pregnant requires certain physical requirements that I haven't have for a long time... I'm talking a very long time. no one, zilch, zippo, I'm a love-free zone, therefore it is utterly impossible that I be UP-THE-DUFF! So what's you're diagnosis now?
PPhysician
Mood swings! (Xena lets him go and he falls over)
I thought so!
Women love flowers. Except Xena, yeah, she's the only woman I know who doesn't stop to smell them.
(Scene showing Xena at a flower shop smelling flowers)
You don't have the slighest idea?
No. Look we've been through this a thousand times. I don't.
How could you not know? I just find that hard to believe, you know.
Tell me.
Ares. Maybe he did...a god thing.
No.
OK, fine. When was the last time you saw Hercules?
S5 E5Them Bones, Them Bones
Well, if it isn't Xena's little bitch. (brings Gabrielle over to her) Welcome to the doghouse!
S5 E6Purity
MFMessage from Lao Ma
The hawk and the dove must be made one with the wisdom.
I’ve been here before. This is where I first met Lao Ma. You’re very like her you know.
I’ve walked in her shadow all my life. Now, it seems, is no exception. But I wonder Xena, why do you look so troubled?
There are people you meet who move in and out of your life like ghosts. And after they’re gone, you find that they’ve left a part of themselves with you. It's as if in some small way that their spirit helps define who you are or what you want to bring to the world.
Then it seems that my mother is still alive in us both.
Your mother taught me compassion. It's a lesson that I want to pass on to this child. But you, how did you learn that without the benefit of her love?
Every day that passes in Chin without bloodshed passes because my mother played a part in the destiny of our homeland. Just look around Xena. Her lesson is her legacy. She speaks to me even now through the whispering wind. You wish to know where I learned compassion? All you have to do is listen.
You are your mother's daughter.
It must have been beautiful.
Yes. I was cornered here, and your mother hid me in her bath, underwater. She gave me her breath to keep me alive.
She died in this palace, didn't she?
That’s right.
Then this is the perfect place to study. In the presence of her spirit.
"The entire world is driven by a will-- "blind and ruthless. "In order to transcend the limitations of the physical world, one must cease desiring,
KHK’ao Hsin/Xena
-and become what we desire.
"To conquer others is to wield power. But to conquer ourselves is to know the way." Lao Ma's power came from her purity of thought.
Then with purity on our side, Pao Ssu will be easily defeated.
No. Pao Ssu has her own kind of purity. The purity of hatred.
Hey, K'ao Hsin, what do you think? Huh? - What's wrong?
I'm plagued with doubt and fear. I can't still my mind.
Fear of what?
My sister's hate. I hear her words echoing through my mind, telling me that I am weak. And she's right! I'll never have the strength to defeat her.
Wrong. It takes great strength to show compassion. Lao Ma taught us both that. That's what we're going to need to beat Pao Ssu.
I don't understand.
Yes, you do! [ Softly ] You do. You said yourself. Lao Ma lives on in her legacy. And each of us holds a part of that. Her blood is in your heart. Her lessons are in mine. If we focus together, we don't need the book.
"The hawk and the dove must be made one with the wisdom." All this time, I thought it was Pao Ssu. But it's you.
"Knowing the way is like being a child."
"Laughing and crying all day without being hoarse."
PSPao Ssu
"Small people hate loneliness. But the master makes it her home." "Her source. Her mother. For she knows it allows her to be one with the universe."
"The master knows no expectation. Therefore, no disappointment."
"And thus, she stays young forever."
"To conquer others is to have power. To conquer yourself is to know the way."
These quotes come from Wikiquote's Xena: Warrior Princess pages and are available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.