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

  233 Copy quote

• 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.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  126 Copy quote

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

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Life, Hard Work, Generosity

  21 Copy quote

• 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

  27 Copy quote

• 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

  36 Copy quote

• 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

  83 Copy quote

  Show source

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

  Jean le Rond d'Alembert

  Math, Goes On, Hesitant

  35 Copy quote

• 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

  84 Copy quote

  Show source
• 

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

  Tariq Ramadan

  Kindness, Be Kind, Expecting

  141 Copy quote

• 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

  655 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  195 Copy quote

  Show source

• The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Positive, Happiness, Spiritual

  116 Copy quote

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

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Funny, Broken Heart

  83 Copy quote

• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

  106 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  22 Copy quote

• I wish I could leave you certain of the images in my mind, because they are so beautiful that I hate to think they will be extinguished when I am. Well, but again, this life has its own mortal loveliness. And memory is not strictly mortal in its nature, either. It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can hardly be said to have any reality at all, even in its passing. A moment is such a slight thing. I mean, that its abiding is a most gracious reprieve.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, Memories, Hate

  7 Copy quote

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

  Abraham Lincoln

  Trust, People, Trusted

  13 Copy quote

• Hope you'll forgive me, never meant wrong. Tried to be patient, but waited too long. But I would've came back.. But I would've came back for you.

  Drake

  Relationship, Break Up, Forgiveness

  20 Copy quote

• Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.

  Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

  Faith, Believe, People

  9 Copy quote

• An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys.

  Iain Sinclair

  Travel, Journey, Doubt

  Iain Sinclair (2004). “Downriver, or, The vessels of wrath: a narrative in twelve tales”, Penguin Books Ltd

  47 Copy quote

  Show source

• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years.

  Wendell Berry

  Two, Years, Tree

  Wendell Berry (2013). “A Country of Marriage: Poems”, p.16, Counterpoint Press

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain.

  Oscar Wilde

  Pain, Grief, Circles

  Oscar Wilde (1961). “Works: Edited with an Introduction”

  5 Copy quote

  Show source