"God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury."
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"Attachment comes only where we expect a return."
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"The development of man is a return to an original perfection."
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"The thing for me is, what if one returns to these maxims, these rather simplistic maxims "Be the change you want to see in the world." Because what canvas have we but the self for these kind of explorations, ultimately."
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"Most of all, I loved seeing Princess Leia strangling you at the end of Return of the Jedi."
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"My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home."
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"Hide them all, then. Keep her – them – safe. Please.' And what will you give me in return, Severus?' In – in return? Anything."
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"It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed."
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"All things in nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfill their function and make no claim. All things alike do their work, and then we see them subside. When they have reached their bloom, each returns to its origin. . . . This reversion is an eternal law. To know that law is wisdom."
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"Being a model to the world, eternal virtue will never falter in you, and you return to the boundless."
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"All things flourish, and each returns to its source."
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"A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return."
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"How resilient was the body, to return to its prior form so quickly! Yet the mind was formed of a less pliable substance. The emptiness in her thoughts would not be so easily filled. Instead there was a hollowness among them-a place she had reserved for future joys which now would never arrive."
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"Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his body, worked for him, and obeyed him."
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"And you can't love, not fully, unless you are loved in return."
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"We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness."
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"Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love."
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"When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize."
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"When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it."
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"When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it."
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