Return Quotes - Page 15

Doing goodness is good only when you don't expect anything in return; not a medal, not even a simple thanking!

Whoever makes great presents, expects great presents in return.

You don't have to do everything right as a parent, but there is one thing you cannot afford to get wrong. That one thing is prayer. You'll never be a perfect parent, but you can be a praying parent. Prayer is your highest privilege as a parent. There is nothing you can do that will have a higher return on investment. In fact, the dividends are eternal.

I'm back... and you knew I was coming. On my way here I passed a cinema with the sign 'The Mummy Returns'.

In stillness the muddied water returns to clarity.

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

Return animosity with virtue.

Revival is a divinely initiated work in which God’s people pray, repent of their sin, and return to a holy, Spirit-filled, obedient, love-relationship with God.

Whoever has really sacrificed anything, knows that he wanted and got something in return.

This is the planet teeming, this place we’ve come to and will leave tomorrow, deepened for the long return but not the wedded reach, the losing touch of self to self, contented more or less and known not nearly well enough.

We did six records, then six movies. Now we need to do six of something else, so we get 666 - and then our master Satan can return!

Early Charlie Munger is a horrible career model for the young, because not enough was delivered to civilization in return for what was wrested from capitalism. And other similar career models are even worse.

One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.

There's only one thing that everyone in this world has in common: whether you want to love somebody and you want to be loved in return.

The National Socialist Party in Austria never tried to hide its inclination for a greater Germany. That Austria would one day return to the Reich was a matter of course for all National Socialists and for true Germans in Austria.

Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn't a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.

As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind's compulsive control, contractions, and identifications. Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.

We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

Returns decrease as motion increases.

And that is what radio-activity is, a quick return to the state of rest which underlies the spiritual or invisible universe.

To be whole is to be part; true voyage is return.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.

Cato, being scurrilously treated by a low and vicious fellow, quietly said to him, "A contest between us is very unequal, for thou canst bear ill language with ease, and return it with pleasure; but to me it is unusual to hear, and disagreeable to speak it." There are none more abusive to others than they that lie most open to it themselves; but the humor goes round, and he that laughs at me today will have somebody to laugh at him tomorrow.

Return from existence to nonexistence. You are seeking the Lord and you belong to him. Nonexistence is a place of income; flee it not. This existence of more and less is a place of expenditure.

Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines.