93 Quotes About Return

So I am not a broken heart. I am not the weight I lost or miles or ran and I am not the way I slept on my doorstep under the bare sky in smell of tears and whiskey because my apartment was empty and if I were to be this empty I wanted something solid to sleep on. Like concrete. I am not this year and I am not your fault. I am muscles building cells, a little every day, because they broke that day, but bones are stronger once they heal and I am smiling to the bus driver and replacing my groceries once a week and I am not sitting for hours in the shower anymore. I am the way a life unfolds and bloom and seasons come and go and I am the way the spring always finds a way to turn even the coldest winter into a field of green and flowers and new life. I am not your fault. . Charlotte Eriksson

(Darcy) "Why do you suppose she decided to come back…after all this time, I mean?"( Nick) "The barmaid?"" Bronte"" If I were to hazard a guess, I would suppose her mother finally convinced her she was on her deathbed."" I suppose, but since she's been on her deathbed for the past ten years that I know of. I'm thinking Bronte probably wouldn't fall for it." Jaide Fox

A hummingbird cake, she decided as she turned on the kitchen light. It was made with bananas and pineapples and pecans and had a cream cheese frosting. She would make it light enough to float away. She reached over to open the window. To float to her daughter. Sarah Addison Allen

May the light be in you forever, May the sun love you and keep you, May the dream make you awaken. For the stars love to shine upon you, And the heavens cry for your loss. May goodness and love flow through you once more, Drink of the light and the love here, Find that we all need you, May your spirit come back across. Mina Marial Nicoli

The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measure of hurt.. He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. . Robin Hobb

In 1988, a cave explorer named Véronique Le Guen volunteered for an extreme experiment: to live alone in an underground cavern in southern France without a clock for one hundred and eleven days, monitored by scientists who wished to study the human body's natural rhythms in the absence of time cues. For a while, she settled into a pattern of thirty hours awake and twenty hours asleep. She described herself as being "psychologically completely out of phase, where I no longer know what my values are or what is my purpose in life." When she returned to society, her husband later noted, she seemed to have an emptiness inside her that she was unable to fully express. "While I was alone in my cave I was my own judge, " she said. "You are your own most severe judge. You must never lie or all is lost. The strongest sentiment I brought out of the cave is that in my life I will never tolerate lying." A little more than a year later, Le Guen swallowed an overdose of barbiturates and lay down in her car in Paris, a suicide at age thirty-three. . Michael Finkel

Homecoming is a single word, and we use it to describe a single event. But true homecoming requires more time. It seems to be a process rather than a moment. Perhaps we come home the way the earth comes home to the sun. It could be that homecoming is always a return and our understanding of home deepens with each encounter. Christie Purifoy

He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with. . Robin Hobb

Missing you, I missed a part of me I shared with you that’s now gone. Missing you, when really, it was the way you made me feeland the things you made us do. Missing you I shouldn’t be. But I can’t help missing who I was with you. Missing you, I missed and missed so much of the world and wasn’t even missed in return. Kamand Kojouri

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account. We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--those whom weobey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the mostfree, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, --even those for whomhome holds no dear face, no familiar voice, --even they have to meet thespirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in itsvalleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its trees--amute friend, judge, and inspirer. Joseph Conrad

We wander in our thousands over theface of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond theseas our fame, our money, or only a crust of bread; but it seems to methat for each of us going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad

When man will return to nature, nature will return to him. Grigoris Deoudis

If today is not your day, then be happy for this day shall never return. And if today is your day, then be happy now for this day shall never return. Kamand Kojouri

Be willing to give, but only when you aren't expecting anything in return. Criss Jami

Donate your blood from your heart to save life. Life will donate you hearts full of love, blood and contentment in return. Munia Khan

At last, you will not be remembered for roaming the earth as a non-entity, but by every word, and every miracle, and every love, and every seed that ever came from the innermost part of your heart. Michael Bassey Johnson

Return to God. Lailah Gifty Akita

It is no coincidence that Christian fundamentalist movements worldwide seek a return to Old Testament laws - because they fundamentally reject Christ as the New Covenant - which replaced all that. They are not Christians - they are Leviticans. Christina Engela

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return. Dejan Stojanovic

Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear. Margaret Atwood

And now you'll be telling storiesof my coming backand they won't be false, and they won't be truebut they'll be real Mary Oliver

We guarantee rude emptiness for ourselves; later in life, when we treat children as - "empty buckets", today. Aniruddha Sastikar

Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity depends on actual people journeying into the unknown and returning with ideas. Dan Harmon

Everyone changes so slowly, they don't even know that they have. And everyone likes to pretend that things are just the same yet they look at you like you could bring something back that's supposed to already be here. But home is a time. Not just a place. Iain Thomas

You never depart from us, but yet, only with difficulties do we return to You. Augustine Of Hippo

Facing a language you don't know is like returning to your infancy when your mother tongue used to be a foreign language to you Munia Khan

You can always return to seek God. Lailah Gifty Akita

There is no need returning anger to those who made your past horrible, do not think of making them feel bitter, maybe a help from you can just make them ashame and miserable, and can probably change their attitude. Michael Bassey Johnson

If I have attached anything to sacrifice other than loss, I have at some level assumed a pay-off. And if I’ve assumed a pay-off, I’m only assuming a sacrifice. Craig D. Lounsbrough

I can always win in Tic Tac toe for example one strategy can be used serveral times and one moment he will find that I'm using this strategy and in the other day he will forgot aobut this and I just repeat the same - But from this point of view it's kind a useless and taking time. I want to find new path ways, the same is with chess I can win always the same way but one moment it come the rule or the thought - hey I want this to return and I will give you to return. I hate this moment it's kind a noobish or kind a bot way! . Deyth Banger

Connect with people who are going where you are going. Don’t hate people. The person you may need later may be likened to the bridge you have destroyed after crossing it. You’ll need that bridge when returning. Israelmore Ayivor

The only way to help someone is when you know they cannot return you back. Anything else is just business. Manoj Arora

Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. Tahir Shah

We're all astronauts, really, aren't we; interstellar astronauts, travelling so far into the blackness we can never return. S.K. Tremayne

Every hour, stop and ask: Am I really present in this moment? If not, what are my thoughts focused on? Doing this often will help you return to the present moment. Unknown

If you feel lost, disappointed, hesitant, or weak, return to yourself, to who you are, here and now and when you get there, you will discover yourself, like a lotus flower in full bloom, even in a muddy pond, beautiful and strong. Masaru Emoto

Solitude is good for a time, but not for all time. Don’t forget to come back and embrace a community. Build one, if you must. Don’t neglect the sharing of yourself. Even those parts that are not so clean have value. In fact, the best lessons you have to offer in life come from your struggles in the darkness and grit of life. LaShawnda Jones

True respect comes when we fend for ourselves without the aid of anyone, and when we owned something and say, 'this is my own'! Not necessarily as a way of boasting of our abundance and grace, but having a feeling that we can use it without obstruction, or being asked to return the favor. Michael Bassey Johnson

The now reality is our only home, where everything already is. There is no other home we came from, and we might think we shall return to. Raphael Zernoff

You cannot disown what is yours. Flung out, there is always the return, the reckoning, the revenge, perhaps the reconciliation. There is always the return. And the wound will take you there. Jeanette Winterson

Thing were falling apart. We just could not slow down. We were evolving into something greater, perhaps too much for our own good. And one thing always remained as I moved on. I saved a little bit of love just in case you would ever return home. Robert M. Drake

Forgive the beggar attention is all that’s seekedand in return I never givethis will hitthis will turn around and it will bite back I know I believe that this is just another stepanother mistake that will teachso, forgive that asker of questionsand engross yourself in her mistakesand runfast never come backunderstand there’s nothing morenothingnot once morenot everforgivewalk away and live on. Isabel Aanya Leigh

Those who die young, they are cheated, ” she said. “Not cheated out of life, because life is a penance, but the young, they’re cheated because they don’t know it’s coming. They don’t have time to move closer, to return home. When you know you’re going to die, you try to be near the bones of your own people. You don’t even think you have bones when you’re young, even when you break them, you don’t believe you have them. But when you’re old, they start reminding you they’re there. They start turning to dust on you, even as you’re walking here and there, going from place to place. And this is when you crave to be near the bones of your own people. My children never felt this. They had to look death in the face, even before they knew what it was. Just like you did, no? . Edwidge Danticat

...I've returned and I look around me and think, I've missed my life. While I was off and alone, it went on here, without me, and I'm forever doomed to be a stranger in my own home. Robin Hobb

It is to the prodigals...that the memory of their Father's house comes back. If the son had lived economically he would never have thought of returning. Simone Weil

I wanted to see my family, but didn't want to leave the other guys. The people waiting for us were strangers, even though I knew every last one of them. Clint Van Winkle

It would be autumn, and our fathers would be out threshing in the fields. We would walk through the mulberry groves, past the big loquat tree and the old lotus pond, where we used to catch tadpoles in the spring. Our dogs would come running up to us. Our neighbours would wave. Our mothers would be sitting by the well with their sleeves tied up, washing the evening's rice. And when they saw us they would just stand up and stare. "Little girl, " they would say to us, "where in the world have you been?. Julie Otsuka

The place where you continually return for love and acceptance–that's home. Richelle E. Goodrich

It takes time, patience, productivity and persistence to 'pop the oil'; just keep digging. Worthy investments take time to show positive returns. T.F. Hodge

Love does not dwell on how much one receives in return. If there is ever any balance in love, it is in a contest of who can love who more. Criss Jami

But you know, as I do, that the storm will pass And that the implacable sun doesn't simply stop When obscured by a dark, pernicious cloud, Which is why I know I'll return to your house- On a Sunday that's there on the calendar- And laugh with you over a glass of grappa. Mauricio Rosencof

If I’m asking what kind of ‘return’ I should be expecting on the sacrifices I’m making, I have in that question revealed the need to ‘return’ that question to wherever I found it and have the word ‘return’ edited out of it. Craig D. Lounsbrough

The things we love are secretly loving us in return. Debasish Mridha

A lost road will remember your footsteps because someday you may want to return, tracing the way. Munia Khan

Your father is waiting, so fly up that mountain and through the alomb. Find Nardukha and tell him I have upheld my end of the bargain. Now it is his turn.” He stares at me, a dangerous light in his eye, and then his gaze travels beyond me, in the direction of the funeral. My hand moves to his muscled forearm, and I squeeze it Jessica Khoury

If you lend the present, it will never be returned. Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Again came that ringing crow, and Peter dropped in front of them. "Greeting, boys, " he cried, and mechanically they saluted, and then again was silence. He frowned." I am back, " he said hotly, "why do you not cheer? J.m. Barrie

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity. John Fowles

A huge mistake that many of us make is to work hard our entire life for money and not require money to work for us in return. Daniel Willey

It is always the same. Whether you are walking or going by train, the way always seems shorter the second time than the first. (And that is true of distances that are not to be measured in miles and yards.) Unknown

When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before. George R.r. Martin

The land is always there...it is you who has to return Munia Khan

She told us about the goddess called Persephone, who was forced to spend half a year in the darkness deep underground. Winter happened when she was trapped inside the earth. The days shrank, they became cold and short and dark. Living things hid themselves away. Spring came when she was released and made her slow way up to the world again. The world became brighter and bolder in order to welcome her back. It began to be filled with warmth and light. The animals dared to wake, they dared to have their young. Plants dared to send out buds and shoots. Life dared to come back. . David Almond

Restoration and hope is available each time you return to God. Jim George

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip. Vera Nazarian

We may not return the affection of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment. Lillian Gordy Carter

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. Khalil Gibran

A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide. Oliver Wendell Holmes

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. Maria Edgeworth

To come to England in the 1970s was to return to this strange other-world of half-known history. I found the imperial architecture curiously familiar: the post office, the town hall, the botanic gardens. Romesh Gunesekera

We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance, and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. Robert M. Pirsig

Time is flying never to return. Virgil

This is the truth: as from a fire aflame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again. Marcus Tullius Cicero

I wrap my heart in yours, placing divulged faith in the whole of your being, wistfully awaiting the trumpet you return. Isabel Yosito

Architects, sculptors painters, we all must return to the crafts! For art is not a 'profession.' There is no essential difference between the artist and the craftsman. The artist is an exalted craftsman. Walter Gropius

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics. Patricia Hewitt

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground. Mark Pryor

But I have a driver, so I can return calls while I'm in the car. Donna Shalala

I think romantic passion is wanting a little something in return. Oscar Isaac

When memories fade, can one ever really return home? Floyd Skloot

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not. Bob Feller

All I ever want is to return to either Bangladesh, my motherland, or India, my adopted home. Taslima Nasrin

We must return to nature and nature's god. Luther Burbank