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Quotes About Return

Peace isn't a feeling to relate to. It's a higher quality of beingness to return to.
~ John de Ruiter
Send home my long strayed eyes to me,Which (Oh) too long have dwelt on thee.
~ John Donne
The soul establishes itself. But how far can it swim out through the eyes And still return safely to its nest?
~ John Ashbery
God gave you life and bestowed upon you his attributes; eventually you will return to him.
~ Rumi
Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.
~ Ben Marcus, The Flame Alphabet
Nearly all educational expenditure should be considered a capital outlay. Education provides a future return in the form of enhanced taxable income and an enhanced quality of life.
~ William Vickrey
Going home to Australia, it's good to get home, but it's kind of bad too because you get used to that way of life again and you have to come back to America.
~ Andrew Bogut
Everybody that went away suffered a broken heart. "I'm coming back some day," they all wrote. But never did. The old life was too small to fit anymore.
~ Annie Proulx
his original manuscript of Cotton Comes to Harlem. Unfortunately, he left it behind on his return journey at the Athens
~ Edward Margolies
Understanding and dealing correctly with the trade-off between risk and return is a fundamental, but poorly understood, challenge faced by all gamblers and investors.
~ Edward O. Thorp
We leave, we run away and don't realize how much we'll need to go back home one day. The South is like that. It's the worst mama in the world and it's the best mama in the world.
~ Edward P. Jones
Return refers not just to bringing troops out of harm's way but to complete homecoming for the whole person in body, mind, heart, and soul
~ Edward Tick
God has appointed that each human being should live one life, die one death and pass through one judgment for the life once lived. Therefore Jesus Christ also lived one life, died one death and God judged the life Christ had lived. Finding it pleasing in every respect, God certified his verdict by raising Christ from the dead. Because of Jesus' one life, one death and one judgment, God accepts the "many" who now eagerly wait for him to return bringing salvation. UNPACKING
~ Edward William Fudge
As unaddressed and unnamed letter and message return to the sender; similarly, unclear love executes nothing.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Death reverts the soul to its original place wherefrom it came.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Just understand, whatever flies, it doesn't matter when, but that lands back.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Treading along in this dreamlike, illusory realm, Without looking for the traces I may have left; A cuckoo's song beckons me to return home; Hearing this, I tilt my head to see Who has told me to turn back; But do not ask me where I am going, As I travel in this limitless world, Where every step I take is my home.
~ Eihei Dogen
in his view love ended only when it was possible to return to oneself without fear or disgust
~ Elena Ferrante
While Otto ran here and there, carefully choosing places to urinate, I felt over every inch of my body the scratches of sexual abandonment, the danger of drowning in scorn for myself and nostalgia for him. I got up and went back along the path; I whistled again, and waited for Otto to return.
~ Elena Ferrante
When I returned home that night with the children, I felt the close, comfortable warmth of the apartment for the first time since the abandonment
~ Elena Ferrante
el amor terminaba solo cuando era posible regresar sin temor o disgusto a sí mismos
~ Elena Ferrante
Il mondo è tornato al suo posto." Lei replicò sfottente: "Quale posto?
~ Elena Ferrante
My return to Naples was like having a defective umbrella that suddenly closes over your head in a gust of wind.
~ Elena Ferrante
I hope that in the free time of old age, the wonder will return.
~ Elena Ferrante