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• Empty yourself of everything.
  Let the mind become still.
  The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.
  They grow and flourish and then return to the source.
  Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature.

  Laozi

  Nature, Fall, Animal

  Laozi, Gia-fu Feng, Jane English (1972). “Tao te ching”, Random House Inc

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• "In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Eye, Leaving

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1982). “Emerson: Selected Essays”, p.30, Penguin

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• You have many choices. You can choose forgiveness over revenge, joy over despair. You can choose action over apathy..- Stephanie Marston
  Letting your kids see u helping others and not expect anything in return can be contagious

  Kevin Heath

  Revenge, Kids, Parenting

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• Simplicity, patience, compassion.
  These three are your greatest treasures.
  Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being.
  Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are.
  Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

  Laozi

  Life, Patience, Philosophy

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• After their return from Babylon, the practice of human sacrifice died out among the Jews, but survived as an ideal in one of its break-away sects, which believed that God accepted the torture-sacrifice of an innocent man in exchange for not visiting a worse fate on the rest of humanity. The sect is called Christianity.

  Steven Pinker

  Fate, Sacrifice, Men

  Steven Pinker (2011). “The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence In History And Its Causes”, p.205, Penguin UK

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• This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.

  Bertrand Russell

  Religion, Earth, Nightmare

  Bertrand Russell (1992). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell, 1903-1959”, p.459, Psychology Press

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• Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Good Night, Condolences

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.922, Delphi Classics

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• We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

  Business, Dust, World

  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2004). “Good Business: Leadership, Flow, and the Making of Meaning”, p.30, Penguin

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• Long ago, Sir Isaac Newton gave us three laws of motion, which were the work of genius. But Sir Isaac's talents didn't extend to investing: He lost a bundle in the South Sea Bubble, explaining later, 'I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men.' If he had not been traumatized by this loss, Sir Isaac might well have gone on to discover the Fourth Law of Motion: For investors as a whole, returns decrease as motion increases.

  Warren Buffett

  Stars, Business, Loss

  Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Chairman's Letter, www.berkshirehathaway.com. 2005.

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• The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Courage, Victory And Defeat, Suffering

  "The Novels and Tales of Robert Louis Stevenson".

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• Why is it that, next to the birthday of the Savior of the world, your most joyous and most venerated festival returns on this day (the 4th of July)? Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?.

  John Quincy Adams

  4th Of July, Events, World

  John Quincy Adams; Speech on Independence Day in Newburyport, Massachusetts, teachingamericanhistory.org. July 4, 1837.

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• One who returns to a place sees it with new eyes. Although the place may not have changed, the viewer inevitably has. For the first time things invisible before become suddenly visible.

  Louis L'Amour

  Eye, Vision, May

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “Bendigo Shafter”, p.281, Bantam

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• Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

  Subramanya Bharathi

  Time, Past, Looks

  "The People's Poet" by N. Nandhivarman to "TamilSydney", www.sangam.org. January 7, 2008.

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• A recession doubles the necessity to be really focused on three or four tactics that can prove a return on investment.

  David Gates

  Business, Three, Tactics

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• You can return all the Christmas gifts you want, but you will never get back the time spent with your relatives.

  Andy Borowitz

  Christmas, Want, Time Spent

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• Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment.

  Laozi

  Spiritual, Roots, Knowing

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• What reason have atheists for saying that we cannot rise again? That what has never been, should be, or that what has been, should be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to it.

  Blaise Pascal

  Easter, Atheist, Reason

  Blaise Pascal, Henry Rogers, Victor Cousin, Charles Louandre (1861). “The Thoughts, Letters and Opuscules of Blaise Pascal”, p.361

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• And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

  Saint Augustine

  Easter, Heart, Sight

  "Confessions".

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• Novell has the necessary resources to be a much more profitable enterprise but it currently lacks the vision, strategy and execution to produce respectable returns.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Vision, Execution, Strategy

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• Children, don't waste a single second.
  Serve others, above all the poor,
  expecting nothing in return.
  Just as the person who offers God flowers
  is the first to enjoy their fragrance,
  the person who offers compassion
  is the first to receive its blessing.
  Wherever a heart beats
  with compassion:
  God is there.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Flower, Heart

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• Whenever you compete, trying harder is truly the game of diminishing returns and a losing one at that

  Jan Garavaglia

  Athlete, Games, Trying

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• The words loved me and I loved them in return.

  Sonia Sanchez

  Book

  Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Shake Loose My Skin: New and Selected Poems”, p.57, Beacon Press

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• I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to Christ. My hope lies in another quarter. I hope that my Master will lay hold of some of them and say, "You are mine, and you shall be mine. I claim you for myself." My hope arises from the freeness of grace, and not from the freedom of the will.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Lying, Grace, Free Will

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• An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

  Winston Churchill

  Morning, Autumn, Night

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• What joy have I in June's return?
  My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn,
  I scent no flowery gust;
  But faint the flagging zephyr springs,
  With dry Macadam on its wings,
  And turns me 'dust to dust.'

  Thomas Hood

  Spring, June, Dust

  Thomas Hood (1866). “The poetical works of Thomas Hood”, p.488

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