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• In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.

  Stevie Wonder

  Integrity, Careers, Volunteer

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• Hatred, jealousy and excessive attachment cause suffering and agitation. I feel compassion can help us overcome these disturbances and let us return to a calm state of mind. Compassion is not just being kind to your friend. That involves attachment because it is based on expectation. Compassion is when you do something good without any expectations - based on realizing that "the other person is also just like me".

  Dalai Lama

  Jealousy, Buddhist, Kindness

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• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Regret, Years

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Imagination, Simplicity, Firsts

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

  Laozi

  Awareness, All Things, Whole

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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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• 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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• Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Home, Silence, Meditation

  Barbara De Angelis (2013). “Real Moments: Discover the Secret for True Happiness”, p.256, Dell

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• Philanthropy is all about making a positive difference in the world by devoting your resources and your time to causes you believe in. In my case, I like to support causes where "a lot of good comes from a little bit of good," or, in other words, where the positive social returns vastly exceed the amount of time and money invested.

  Jeffrey Skoll

  Money, Believe, Differences

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• Violence and injury enclose in their net all that do such things, and generally return upon him who began.

  Lucretius

  Violence, Injury

  Titus Lucretius Carus (1924). “De rerum natura”

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• The morrow of this day will be eternity; then Jesus will return you a hundred fold the lovely, rightful joys that you are sacrificing for him.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Joy

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• The world so quickly adjusts itself after any loss, that the return of the departed would nearly always throw it, even the circle most interested, into confusion.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Loss, Circles, Confusion

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• Happy bridegroom, Hesper brings All desired and timely things. All whom morning sends to roam, Hesper loves to lead them home. Home return who him behold, Child to mother, sheep to fold, Bird to nest from wandering wide: Happy bridegroom, seek your bride.

  A. E. Housman

  Love, Mother, Morning

  A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.123, Delphi Classics

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• Suppose you were to come upon someone in the woods working feverishly to saw down a tree.
  "What are you doing?" you ask.
  "Can't you see?" comes the impatient reply. "I'm sawing down this tree."
  "You look exhausted!" you exclaim. "How long have you been at it?"
  "Over five hours," he returns, "and I'm beat! This is hard work."
  'Well, why don't you take a break for a few minutes and sharpen that saw?" you inquire. "I'm sure it would go a lot faster."
  "I don't have time to sharpen the saw," the man says emphatically. "I'm too busy sawing!"

  Stephen Covey

  Hard Work, Men, Long

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.363, Mango Media Inc.

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• Do you know anyone who hasn't changed his mind? This door was a tree, then it will be firewood for someone, then it will return to air and earth. We're all like that, constantly changing. It's simply honest to report that you've changed your mind when you have. When you're afraid of what people will think if you speak honestly, that's where you become confused.

  Byron Katie

  Inspirational, Confused, Thinking

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• If physics leads us today to a world view which is essentially mystical, it returns, in a way, to its beginning, 2,500 years ago... This time, however, it is not only based on intuition, but also on experiments of great precision and sophistication, and on a rigorous and consistent mathematical formalism.

  Fritjof Capra

  Science, Views, Years

  "The Tao of Physics: An Exploration of the Parallels Between Modern Physics and Eastern Mysticism". Book by Fritjof Capra, 1975.

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• His return gives England another key to its bow.

  Stuart Pearce

  Football, Keys, Giving

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