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• Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

  Mark Twain

  Good Luck, Luck, Deities

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• So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return.

  William Shenstone

  Goodbye, Farewell, Good Bye

  William Shenstone (1868). “The Poetical Works of William Shenstone: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes”, p.150

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• The return makes one love the farewell.

  Alfred de Musset

  Love, Inspirational, Goodbye

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• The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature.

  Aristotle

  Rain, Moving, Agency

  Catholic Way Publishing, Aristotle, Plato (2015). “The Philosophy Collection [97 Books]”, p.1272, Catholic Way Publishing

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• An education is the investment with the greatest returns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Education, Teaching, Investment

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• Being of service is not enough. You must become a servant of the people. When you do, you can demand their commitment in return.

  Cesar Chavez

  Commitment, People, Demand

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• And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Religious, Light

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.518, Wildside Press LLC

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• I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Children, Two

  Mark Twain, Howard G. Baetzhold, Joseph B. Mccullough (1996). “The Bible According to Mark Twain”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• Since God often sends us inspirations by means of His angels, we should frequently return our aspirations to him by means of the same messengers.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Mean, Angel

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• If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

  William Maxwell

  Motivational, Dog, Hunting

  William Maxwell (2013). “All the Days and Nights: The Collected Stories”, p.404, Vintage

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• We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational Love

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• By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Buddhism, Self, Long

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• What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Heart, Giving, Charity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1880, Manonmani Publishers

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• The world in which we live would benefit greatly if men and women everywhere would exercise the pure love of Christ, which is kind, meek, and lowly. It is without envy or pride. It is selfless because it seeks nothing in return. It does not countenance evil or ill will, nor rejoice in iniquity; it has no place for bigotry, hatred, or violence. It refuses to condone ridicule, vulgarity, abuse, or ostracism. It encourages diverse people to live together in Christian love regardless of religious belief, race, nationality, financial standing, education, or culture.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Christian, Religious, Pride

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• No, the Lord doesn't really need us to take care of the poor, but we need this experience; for it is only through our learning how to take care of each other that we develop within us the Christlike love and disposition necessary to qualify us to return to his presence.

  Marion G. Romney

  Needs, Charity, Care

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• The returns from investing in poor people are just as great as the returns from investing in the business world... and have even more meaning

  Bill Gates

  People, Investing, World

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• The best gift you can give is a hug: one size fits all and no one ever minds if you return it.

  Marge Piercy

  Friendship, Giving, Hug

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• God's purpose for man is to acquire a seeing eye and an understanding heart." "God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him." "The rewards of life and devotion to God are love and inner rapture, and the capacity to receive the light of God.

  Rumi

  Inspirational Life, Heart, Eye

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• Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

  Laozi

  Awareness, All Things, Whole

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• People believe I am what they see Me as, rather than what they do not see. But I am the Great Unseen, not what I cause Myself to be in any particular moment. In a sense, I am what I am not. It is from the Am-notness that I come, and to it I always return.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Believe, People, Unseen

  Neale Donald Walsch (1996). “Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue”, p.18, Penguin

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• Meaning doesn't lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren't love - the money, the car, the house, the prestige - we are loving things that can't love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It's not that they're bad. It's that they're nothing. ("A Return to Love")

  Marianne Williamson

  Lying, Mean, Addiction

  Marianne Williamson (1992). “A return to love: reflections on the principles of "A course in miracles"”

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• The safe places could only be visited; they could only grant a momentary intuition of sanctuary. The moment always came when we had to return to our real life to face the wounds and grief indigenous to our homr by the river.

  Pat Conroy

  Real, Grief, Rivers

  Pat Conroy (1986). “The Prince of Tides”, p.380, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the Brain and the Fancy: It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of Observations on material and obvious things.

  Robert Hooke

  Time, Nature, Science

  Robert Hooke (1906). “Extracts from Micrographia: Or, Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon”

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• If we take an unprejudiced view of the processes of consciousness, free from all the so-called association rules and theories, we see at once that an idea is no more an even relatively constant thing than is a feeling or emotion or volitional process. There exist only changing and transient ideational processes ; there are no permanent ideas that return again and disappear again.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Ideas, Feelings, Emotion

  "An Introduction to Psychology". Book by Wilhelm Wundt, p. 122, 1912.

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• The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice, Reputation

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