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• The craving for 'the return of the day', which the sick so constantly evince, is generally nothing but the desire for light.

  Florence Nightingale

  Nursing, Light, Sick

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.48, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• To love is to risk not being loved in return.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Love Is, Deep Love

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• I love you like a river that understands that it must learn to flow differently over waterfalls and to rest in the shallows. I love you because we are all born in the same place, at the same source, which keeps us provided with a constant supply of water. And so, when we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little. The spring returns, and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Spring, Love You

  "Aleph". Book by Paulo Coelho, 2011.

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• Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Men, Creative

  "Loving Your Enemies". Sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr. at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama, November 17, 1957.

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• All love will, one day, meet with its return. All true love will, one day, behold its own image in the eyes of the beloved, and be humbly glad.

  George MacDonald

  Life, Eye, One Day

  George Macdonald (2013). “The Princess Treasury”, p.466, Simon and Schuster

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• If we love something similar to ourselves, we endeavor, as far as we can, to bring it about that it should love us in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Should, Endeavor

  "The Essential Spinoza: Ethics and Related Writings".

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• If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Believe, Causes

  Baruch Spinoza (1981). “Ethics”, p.128, Commodius Vicus

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• Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received.

  Albert Einstein

  Order, My Sympathy, Standpoint

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.227, Princeton University Press

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• I loved you, and my love had no return,
  And therefore my true love has been my death.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, I Loved You, My True Love

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson (Illustrated)”, p.1099, Delphi Classics

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• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• In order for music to free itself, it will have to pass over to the other side - there where territories tremble, where the structures collapse, where the ethoses get mixed up, where a powerful song of the earth is unleashed, the great ritornelles that transmutes all the airs it carries away and makes return.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Music, Song, Powerful

  "Essays critical and clinical" by Gilles Deleuze, (p. 104), 1993.

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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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• Some people say dying alone is a fate worse than death itself. Well, they should try being alone during the living part sometimes. There's no quicker way to make you wonder why the hell you ever thought you'd want to return.

  John Corey Whaley

  Fate, Dying Alone, People

  John Corey Whaley (2014). “Noggin”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.

  Hans F. Sennholz

  Honesty, Law, Gold

  Hans F. Sennholz (1979). “Age of inflation”

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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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• Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

  William Gurnall

  Prayer, Journey, Waiting

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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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• 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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