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Quotes About Return

True repentence is to depart from evil. A return to God, seeking his grace for power to obey him.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Clarity is what a person's psychology is always endeavouring to return to. Innate clarity and resilience are always shining a beacon, even when a person seems hopelessly lost…
~ Jamie Smart
That would be no less shrewd: for when you first come home from a strange place you are always something of a ghost. They were sorry when you went away, and they welcome you back with affection: but in the meanwhile they have adjusted their lives a little to your absence.
~ Jan Struther
The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.
~ Jane Bowles
God is calling a generation of Issachar intercessors who are willing to bear the burden of the Lord to prepare the way for His return. Yes, they will be prophetic, with keen vision of the spirit realm and the ability to discern the times, but they will also be humble, hardworking "Christ-bearers," who usher in the presence of the Lord. They will live their lives with a heart of servitude to the call of God to intercede until the job is done.
~ Jane Hamon
So I, a migratory bird, am suffering from the need to return to the place I have come from before the season and sun are right for my return. Do I meet spring summer or winter? Here I live in a perpetual other season unable to read in the sky, the sun, the temperature, the signs for returning.
~ Janet Frame
You should know that people will come back for more. If you're not confident about that, you haven't created a strong enough product.
~ Jason Fried
El regreso es la infidelidad más profunda'.
~ Javier Marías
The worse thing that can happen to anyone, worse than death itself, and the worst thing one can make others do, is to return from the place from which no one returns, to come back to life at the wrong time, when you are no longer expected, when it's too late and inappropriate, when the living have assumed you are over and done with and have continued or taken up their lives again, leaving no room for you at all.
~ Javier Marías
Your homecoming will be my homecoming
~ E.E. Cummings
Presence is pure consciousness — consciousness that has been reclaimed from the mind, from the world of form. The inner body is your link with the Unmanifested, and in its deepest aspect is the Unmanifested: the Source from which consciousness emanates, as light emanates from the sun. Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.
~ Ed Viesturs
As he passed through the winding corridors and the subterranean apartments, Tarzan saw nothing of the hyenas. They will return, he said to himself. In the crater between the towering walls Bukawai, cold with terror, trembled, trembled as with ague. They will return! he cried, his voice rising to a fright-filled shriek. And they did.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
have nothing to give you," he said, "save this advice —that you return swiftly to where you came from and carry my word to your chief. Later I will come and make inquiries." The men were not satisfied, and an elder, wrinkled with age, and sooty-grey of head, spoke up. "It is said, master," he mumbled, through his toothless jaws, "that in other lands when men starve there come many white men bringing grain and comfort.
~ Edgar Wallace
We seek the dead only, to return to earth the body, of which no man is the owner, but only for a brief moment the guest. Dust must return to dust again.
~ Edith Hamilton
The return to reality was as painful as the return to consciousness after taking an anesthetic
~ Edith Wharton
Yes, you have been away a very long time. Oh, centuries and centuries; so long, she said, that I'm sure I'm dead and buried, and this dear old place is heaven;
~ Edith Wharton
Undine leaned close enough for her lowered voice to reach him. 'Can't you understand that, knowing how they all feel about me and how Ralph feels - I'd give almost anything to get away?' Her father looked at her compassionately. 'I guess most of us feel that way once in a way when we're young, Undine. Later on you'll see going away ain't much use when you've got to turn around and come back.
~ Edith Wharton
This ain't no Bigfoot. It's the Bighead! The Bighead is back!
~ Edward Lee
Mary that that 'swift return' was going a bit far. She glanced nervously at the coffin, as if Eleanor might fling off the lid and hop out any moment, throwing open her arms to embrace the word, with the awkward theatricality of the photograph on the order service.
~ Edward St. Aubyn
If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was
~ Albert Schweitzer
Cada vez que te sonreía como dices, sentías que te ponían en tu lugar. Sin duda el sufrimiento era atroz pero también era como un retorno. La hija pródiga en la casa del tormento.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
Return as ever. Your eyes are my only conveyance to death's other face.
~ Alejandra Pizarnik
No es posible regresar a ninguna parte. Los puntos de partida no se quedan quietos y a la vuelta ya no están. Para poder volver se necesita, por empezar, un punto de partida eterno e inmutable. Pero todo se mueve y no hay forma de detener el universo.
~ Alejandro Dolina