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Returning to the source is serenity. -- Laozi
Returning hate for hate multiplies hate... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning is the movement of the Way. -- Laozi
Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving -- Frederic Bastiat
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Returning to the source is stillness. It is returning to one's fate. Returning to one's fate is eternal. -- Laozi
Returning to whereIt used to see blossoms,My mind, changed,Will stay on at Yoshino...Home now, and see anew. -- Saigy?
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. -- William Shakespeare
Returning home is the most difficult part of long-distance hiking; You have grown outside the puzzle and your piece no longer fits. -- Cindy Ross
Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight. -- Laozi
The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness each fulfils its destiny. -- Laozi
Structural dissatisfaction: Returning to circumstances that once pleased you, after having experienced a more thrilling or opulent way of life, and finding that you can no longer tolerate them. -- Jennifer Egan
Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world. -- Donna Rice Hughes
Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us. -- Sonia Gandhi
Things flourish, then each returns to its root. Returning to the root is called stillness: Stillness is called return to life, return to life is called the constant; knowing the constant is called enlightenment. -- Laozi
Returning from work feeling inspired, safe, fulfilled and grateful is a natural human right to which we are all entitled and not a modern luxury that only a few lucky ones are able to find. -- Simon Sinek
I was fourteen years old when I went to my first suffrage meeting. Returning from school one day, I met my mother just setting out for the meeting, and I begged her to let me go along. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This is why the tree, the stone, the river, and the mountain are quiet. -- Malidoma Patrice Some
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. ... In fact, violence merely increases hate. ... Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return. They grow and flourish and then return to the source. Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. -- Laozi
Returning to the Moon with NASA astronauts is not the best usage of our resources. Because OUR resources should be directed to outward, beyond-the-moon, to establishing habitation and laboratories on the surface of Mars that can be built, assembled, from the close-by moons of Mars. -- Buzz Aldrin
I don't think about returning to the streets, 'cause I don't have any plans to return to the streets. I'm at another level in my life. Returning to the street - I still be in my streets when I get time to, when it's necessary. -- Meek Mill
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars. -- Paul Davies
When I was small and easily wounded books were my carapace. If I were recalled to my hurts in the middle of a book they somehow mattered less. My corporeal life was slight the dazzling one in my head was what really mattered. Returning to books was coming home. -- Lauren Groff
Returning to writing fiction after years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's what I had wanted to be for my entire life, since I can remember, since my particular time immemorial. It's how I got my start as a writer. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I'm bad at returning phone calls. -- Zac Efron
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. -- James Allen
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
I am happy that Poland is returning to the road of pluralism and democracy. -- Lech Walesa
I haven't had the time to plan returning to the scene because I haven't left it. -- Mick Jagger
Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. -- John Updike
In order to obtain the goal of returning to Palestine, all of us sometimes have to grit our teeth. -- Yasser Arafat
I do not keep a diary. Never have. To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. -- Enoch Powell
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. -- Nelson Mandela
I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers. -- Barbara Lee
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. -- Bill Veeck
If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. -- James Buchanan
Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it. -- Amelia Earhart
I'm a storyteller; that's what exploration really is all about. Going to places where others haven't been and returning to tell a story they haven't heard before. -- James Cameron
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. -- Steve Buyer
That was the day I began cutting classes and returning to TV tapings; it ultimately led to a friendship with Johnny O, and an increasing fascination and respect for what he did. -- Randy West
I counseled many returning missionaries. I interviewed 1,700 missionaries all over the world. My advice to them is that you should study and prepare for your life's work in a field that you enjoy. -- Thomas S. Monson
Most previous immigrants came to the United States to become Americans, with no intention of returning home. They relinquished their ties with their homeland. English was their key to prosperity, and they worked hard to master it. -- John Shadegg
Many soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan suffer from serious, long-term, physical and mental health problems, due to their service. It is unconscionable to cut the already limited health care benefits available to these brave men and women. -- Mark Dayton
The joint lubrication was not what it was when I was competing, and I decided that not having arthritis or rheumatism for the rest of my life was a lot more important to me than returning to the track. -- Edwin Moses
Happily, there's a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We're seeing a lot of - actually in Africa - we're seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota. -- John Dramani Mahama
The first painting that I realised I liked was 'The Garden of Earthly Delights' by Hieronymus Bosch, when I was six years old, at the Prado in Madrid. I still find myself returning there every time I'm in the city. -- Carolina Herrera
President Obama has tried to spin the paltry new job creation numbers as 'a step in the right direction.' But, clearly, the small growth in jobs isn't even keeping up with population growth, much less returning the workforce to a healthy level. -- Bob Beauprez
I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay. -- Carrie Brownstein
One night, I lay awake for hours, just terrified. When the dawn finally came up - the comfortable blue sky, the familiar world returning - I could think of no other way to express my relief than through poetry. I made a decision there and then that it was what I wanted to do. Every time I pulled a wishbone, it was what I asked for. -- Alice Oswald
Anger has a way of returning. -- Junot Diaz
Everything is instincts when returning kicks. -- Dante Hall
Charity is merely returning what we have stolen. -- Shane Claiborne
Everything that disappears/Disappears as if returning somewhere -- Tracy K. Smith
Life is going forth; death is returning home. -- Laozi
I would never say never to returning to comedy. -- Eric Bana
Going on means going far, going far means returning. -- Laozi
Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. -- Antoni Gaudi
And so they are ever returning to us, the dead. -- W. G. Sebald
All words and sayings gently turn, returning to the self. -- Bassui Tokusho
Luxuries unfit us for returning to hardships easily endured before. -- Mary Mapes Dodge
Awareness returning home is awareness being enfolded by what it knows. -- John de Ruiter
I believe in returning the nation's wealth to its rightful owners. -- Barack Obama
Remember the coffin where men All must to dust be returning. -- Henri Cazalis
Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you -- Dermot Healy
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness. -- Dejan Stojanovic
There is no duty more indispensible than that of returning a kindness. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
For me, leaving the Marine Corps was more disorienting than returning home. -- Phil Klay
Truth is Timeless, and returning to Truth is better than continuing in Falsehood -- Umar
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring. -- Ambrose Philips
Italy is a dream that keeps returning for the rest of your life. -- Anna Akhmatova
To write a diary every day is like returning to one's own vomit. -- Enoch Powell
Nature, it seems, has a way of returning things to how they should be. -- Fennel Hudson
Once a person reaches Consciousness III, there is no returning to a lower consciousness. -- Charles A. Reich
Preservation of human life generally outweighs some stupid code about returning objects on time. -- Stephen Bier, Jr.
Not returning phone calls is the severest form of torture in the civilized world. -- Marisha Pessl
Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source. -- Eckhart Tolle
Yet beauty, though injurious, hath strange power, After offence returning, to regain Love once possess'd. -- John Milton
The positives of retiring outweighed the positives of returning and my desire to still play. -- Drew Bledsoe
When we invest in an asset-rich but low-returning business, time may be working against us. -- John Mihaljevic
I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning. -- Horace
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage, -- George Herbert
Jesus is returning for a bride whose body is in equal proportion to her head. -- Bill Johnson
I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions. -- Barack Obama
Loss; is the returning of what never actually belonged to us in the first place. -- Yasmin Mogahed
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote. -- Sara Genn
Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. -- Margaret Atwood
When markets are rallying, cash in the portfolio is a drag on performance, returning about zero. -- Barry Ritholtz
Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? -- George Eliot
I kept.. ..returning to the (ancient Roman) wall paintings with their veiled melancholy and elegant plasticity. -- William Baziotes
Usually, there is nothing more pleasing that returning to a place where you have endured hardship. -- Tahir Shah
To forsake sin, is to leave it without any thought reserved of returning to it again. -- William Gurnall
The hardest thing about reality is returning to it after an hour inside your child's mind. -- Robert Breault
...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else. -- Rebecca Solnit
Maybe staying on the surface keeps her from returning to a place where she can't breathe. -- Mary E. Pearson
Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions. -- Antonio Gaudi
Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is probably no more obnoxious class of citizen, taken end for end, than the returning vacationist. -- Robert Benchley
My family has had to become quite understanding about me not returning phone calls when I'm filming. -- Anna Kendrick
Those meaningless and unanswerable questions the minds keep returning to, like a tongue exploring a broken tooth. -- Arthur C. Clarke
The thoughts of a prisoner - they're not free either. They keep returning to the same things. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Always go onward; returning to a favored place you will only find your old footsteps washed away. -- Joe Harris
The nice thing about being away from home is the feeling of excitement when returning to it! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
Reality has become a parallel universe with photographers returning with different versions of what it truly looks like. -- Philip-Lorca diCorcia
Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. -- Sun Tzu
The Thriller album is still the biggest album of all time. That is still returning huge royalty cheques. -- Martin Bashir
When I first moved to New York, I was still returning to Tennessee every few months to perform. -- Valerie June
There are patterns which emerge in one's life, circling and returning anew, an endless variation of a theme -- Jacqueline Carey
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow. -- Martin Luther
The American Southwest seems to be slowly returning to the jurisdiction of Mexico without firing a single shot. -- Cruz Bustamante
How can your God become our God and renew our prosperity and awaken in us dreams of returning greatness? -- Chief Seattle
...returning to nature has been a dream present in the minds of every generation since mankind first left nature. -- Daniel J. Rice
Fire is the origin of stone.By working the stone with heat, I am returning it to its source. -- Andy Goldsworthy
For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed. -- Henry Rollins
She was returning home to be the wife of, mother of, First Lady of, but what did that really mean? -- Stacy Hawkins Adams
When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web. -- Tom Brady
Oh, I was an ugly kid. My old man took me to the zoo. They thanked him for returning me. -- Rodney Dangerfield
The book of nature is the book of fate. She turns the gigantic pages, leaf after leaf never returning one. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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