Return Quotes

• If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

  Khalil Gibran

  Love, Moving On, Marriage

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• Those to whom evil is doneDo evil in return.

  W. H. Auden

  Compassion, Evil

  "September 1, 1939" l. 19 (1939)

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• The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

  Antonio Machado

  Flower, Garden, Wind

  Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

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• A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery; and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

  Anthony Hecht

  Fun, Lying, Trying

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• I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road.

  Maya Angelou

  Grandmother, Years, Looks

  Source: www.azcentral.com

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• I think it's critical that we return national security issues to the center of the overall political debate in America.

  John Bolton

  Thinking, America, Issues

  Source: www.texastribune.org

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• All things flourish, and each returns to its source.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Source, All Things

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• To be whole is to be part;
  true voyage is return.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Voyages, Whole

  "The Word for World Is Forest". Book by Ursula K. Le Guin, 1972.

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• What you give becomes an investment that will return to you multiplied at some point in the future.

  Jim Rohn

  Giving, Investment

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Sep 06, 2016

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• The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Greek, Suffering

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• The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Life, Hard Work, Generosity

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• I think the hardest thing for a person is to know what those twelve things are that they need to work on that will bring the return of success to their life.

  John C. Maxwell

  Thinking, Twelve, Needs

  Source: www.christianbookpreviews.com

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• Happiness pursued eludes, happiness given returns.

  John Templeton

  Elude, Given, Pursued

  John Marks Templeton (2008). “Wisdom From World Religions: Pathways Toward Heaven On Earth”, p.273, Templeton Foundation Press

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• For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Just go on..and faith will soon return.

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Goes On, Hesitant

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• My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Inspiring

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• Deep at the center of my being there is an infinite well of gratitude. I now allow this gratitude to fill my heart, my body, my mind, my consciousness, my very being. This gratitude radiates out from me in all directions, touching everything in my world, and returns to me as more to be grateful for. The more gratitude I feel, the more I am aware that the supply is endless.

  Louise Hay

  Life, Motivational, Gratitude

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Nov 23, 2011

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• What goes around, comes around.

  Willie Nelson

  Karma, Respect, Revenge

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.33, Penguin

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  To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Kindness, Be Kind, Expecting

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• Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning.

  Sengcan

  Thinking, Talking, Roots

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• If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

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• Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me.
  Today, I choose to give love.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Life, Simple

  FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Apr 30, 2015

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• The people when rightly and fully trusted will return the trust.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, People, Trusted

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• Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Past, Should Have

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.160, Pan Macmillan

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• There have been many stones on my path, which frequently made me trip and give up, however I keep telling myself this is only momentary, I will get back up. Since it's our responsibility to return back the love that we have received from so many. That is why no matter how difficult or tough it becomes I cannot let go. And that is why no matter how difficult it becomes we are able to gain strength.

  Kwon Yuri

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Responsibility

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