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“I felt a complete willingness, without any reservations, to give my life, to dedicate my life to service. I tell you, it's a point of no return. After that, you can never go back to completely self-centered living.”

Giving Self Felt Return Willingness Self Centered Reservations

Book:Steps Toward Inner Peace

Source: Steps Toward Inner Peace

“When winter stern, his gloomy front uprears, A sable void the barren earth appears; The meads no more their former verdure boast, Fast-bound their streams, and all their beauty lost; The herds, the flocks, in icy garments mourn, and wildly murmur for the Spring's return; From snow-topp'd hills the whirlwinds keenly blow, Howl through the woods, and pierce the vales below, Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies.”

Source: The Life and Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe

“The return to a favorite novel is generally tied up with changes in oneself that must be counted as improvements, but have the feel of losses. It is like going back to a favorite house, country, person; nothing is where it belongs, including one's heart.”

Feels Heart Persons Book Country Reading House Loss Novel Return Including Oneself Improvement Tied Book Reading Tied Up

Book:Occasional prose

Source: Occasional prose

“The furniture and trappings in the apartment are all in a state of flux - here today, gone tomorrow. Nothing is anchored to its place, not even the coffee-pot, which floats off and returns, on the tide of the signora's marine nature.”

States Today Gone Return Tomorrow Coffee Pot Tides Apartment Furniture Marine Floats Flux Here Today Gone Tomorrow

Book:Venice observed

Source: Venice observed

“Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it is a land of moods and its moods are numberless. It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations - and seen them die, and seen new ones born again - Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.”

Men Dies Born Race Cities Too Much Land Return Civilization Warm Mood Cynical Indifferent Cradle Born Again Weariness Fickle Dispassionate

Author:Beryl Markham

“Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown.”

Years Joy Known Dying Return Spring Breasts Joy Of Life

Book:The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

Source: The Works of Michael Bruce: Ed. with Memoir and Notes

“Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.”

Long Night Fall Walks Wind Cold Return Rain Mark Grey November Oaks Bronze Cold Night

Author:Gladys Taber

“The stones and trees, insensible to time, / Nor age nor wrinkle on their front are seen; / If Winter come, and greenness then do fade / A Spring returns, and they more youthful made; / But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he's laid.”

Ifs Men Made Age Death Lying Grows Tree Fronts Return Spring Stones Remains Winter Fades Wrinkles Insensible

Book:The Works of Anne Bradstreet

Source: The Works of Anne Bradstreet

“The Americans are and remain our best friends, but this is absolutely not right. We can't simply return to business as usual.”

Return Usual Nsa

Author:Thomas de Maiziere

“Here is a kitchen improvement, in return for Peacock. For roasting or basting a chicken, render down your fat or butter with cider: about a third cider. Let it come together slowly, till the smell of cider and the smell of fat are as one. This will enliven even a frozen chicken.”

Together Food Return Thirds Cooking Smell Improvement Fats Kitchen Culinary Chickens Frozen Peacock Cider Roasting

Book:Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters

Source: Sylvia and David: the Townsend Warner/Garnett letters

“The kind of crabbing my wife likes to do is to return from an afternoon's swim or sunbathing session, open the refrigerator door, and find a generous plate of crab cakes all ready to cook.”

Kind Wife Doors Food Ready Return Cooking My Wife Likes Cooks Generous Culinary Swim Cake Afternoon Plates Session Refrigerators Crabs Sunbathing

Author:Euell Gibbons

“The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up.”

Source: The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world

“Revival is the return of God's manifest presence to His people for the purpose of them renewing their relationship with Him, with each other and for the good of the broader society. It is necessary because much of what God determines to do, or not do, in the world is determined by His relationship to His people.”

People World Purpose Return Determine Determined Manifest Revival

Author:Tony Evans

“I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.”

Knows Feels Believe Humans States Moments Practice Return Periods Enlightenment Universal Constant Access Clarity Sensitive Awake Confused Being Human Numb Moments Of Clarity

Author:Mark Nepo

“living for oneself is a bad thing. The keenest intellectual pleasure comes from being able to return to the self after being absent from it for a spell. But living all the time inside the self, that most tyrannical, demanding and capricious of companions - no, one shouldn't do it.”

Self Able Pleasure Return Intellectual Oneself Companion Bad Things Spells Absent Capricious

Book:Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

Source: Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand

“I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.”

Giving Mind Return Giving Up Red Meat Afterlife Jewelry Comradeship Red Meat Carnality

Book:GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT

Source: GIDEON'S DRIVE; ASK FOR ME TOMORROW; HELLSPOUT

“For ebbing resolution ne'er returns, But falls still further from its former shore.”

Stills Fall Return Former Resolution Shore

Author:Alec Douglas-Home

“I believe that the matter is automatically self-regulating; that those women who prefer the home and have an ability for it will eventually return to it; that others, like myself, will compromise; and that still others, temperamentally unfitted for it, will remain in the world to add to its productivity.”

World Believe Stills Self Matter Home I Believe Women Ability Return Add Productivity Compromise

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“Take it and return it: the kiss of love.”

Return Kissing Love Kissing

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.”

Firsts Children Has Beens Lasts Mother Time Force Memories Sleep Behinds Known Events Movement Return Garden Brilliant Mourning Prophecy Reconciliation Spine Ribs Expulsion

Author:Marilynne Robinson

“One should never go back to a place one has loved; for, however, rough the going forward is, it is better than the snuffing out-of-love return.”

Should Return Rough

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“Who now travels that dark path from whose bourne they say no one returns. [Lat., Qui nunc it per iter tenebricosum Illue unde negant redire quemquam.]”

Death Dark Path Return Bourne

Author:Catullus

“New York rose out of the water like a great wave that found it impossible to return again and so remained there in horror, peering out of the million windows man had caged it with.”

Men Found Water Millions Impossible New York Return Horror Window Rose Wave Caged

Book:Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

Source: Vivid and Repulsive as the Truth: The Early Works of Djuna Barnes

“Casually, unconsciously, but with deadly effectiveness, western man all round the globe destroyed the traditional gods and the ancient societies with his commerce and his science. ... Does it mean nothing to him if great areas of the world, where western influence has been predominant, emerge from this tutelage unable to return to the old life, yet unfitted for the new? It is hard to believe that the future could ever belong to men demonstrating irresponsibility on so vast a scale.”

“Faith will not be restored in the West because people believe it to be useful. It will return only when they find that it is true.”

People Believe Faith Return West

Author:Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

“When parents die, all of the partings of the past are reevoked with the realization that this time they will not return.”

Past Dies Parent Return Realization Parting

Book:With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

Source: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson

“It is hard to personate and act a part long; for where Truth is not the bottom, Nature will always be endeavoring to return, and will peep and betray herself one time or other.”

Long Hard Action Return Truth Is Bottom One Time Betray

Author:John Tillotson

“The rice bowl is to me the most valid reason in the world for doing anything. A piece of one's soul to the multitudes in return for rice and wine does not seem to me a sacrilege.”

World Doe Soul Reason Seems Pieces Return Wine Hunger Bowls Multitudes Rice Sacrilege

Author:Han Suyin

“It was considered very bad form to wish authors on their birthdays 'many happy returns.”

Form Wish Return

Book:The Bestseller

Source: The Bestseller

“Sometimes you have to disclaim your country and inhabit another before you can return to your own.”

Country Sometimes Return

Book:Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

Source: Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland

“There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.”

Heart Mother Voice Answers Feet Sweet Arms Return Sight Dancing Spread Infant

Book:The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie

“The public is a monster and that is why I am not eager to return to the stage.”

Stage Return Monsters

Author:Maria Callas

“Euphemisms, like fashions, have their day and pass, perhaps to return at another time. Like the guests at a masquerade ball, they enjoy social approval only so long as they retain the capacity for deception.”

Long Social Enjoy Fashion Return Capacity Balls Deception Guests Approval Another Time Euphemism Masquerade

Author:Freda Adler

“Gratitude is a virtue disposing the mind to an inward sense and an outward acknowledgment of a benefit received, together with a readiness to return the same, or the like, as occasions of the doer of it shall require, and the abilities of the receiver extend to. He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.”

Should Mind Doe Together Remember Turns Ability Forget Virtue Return Gratitude Benefits Occasions Never Forget Inward Forget It Readiness Doers Receiver Acknowledgment

Author:Pierre Charron

“Breaking up: It's so easy to return their possessions, but so hard to get our brain cells back.”

Hard Easy Brain Return Possession Cells Brain Cells

Author:Cathy Guisewite

“Dachau has been my own lifelong point of no return. Between the moment when I walked through the gate of that prison, with its infamous motto, 'Arbeit Macht Frei,' and when I walked out at the end of a day that had no ordinary scale of hours, I was changed, and how I looked at the human condition, the world we live in, changed ... Years of war had taught me a great deal, but war was nothing like Dachau. Compared to Dachau, war was clean.”

“It is charming the way everyone in the South says, 'Come back.' This is the regulation farewell at gas stations, soda fountains, general stores, tourist camps. 'Come back,' they call, 'come back.' Do they feel marooned in one place, lost, needing to believe someone will return to share their exile on the similar main streets, in the varied but always new-looking land?”

Way Feels Believe Lost Share Streets Land Return South Stores Gas Stations Camps Regulation Charming Farewell Fountain Exile Tourists Soda Gas Stations Main Street

Book:The View From The Ground

Source: The View From The Ground

“Misery is a guest that we are glad to part with, however certain of her speedy return.”

Certain Return Misery Glad Unhappiness Guests

Book:Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)

“A fly is a very light burden; but if it were perpetually to return and settle on one's nose, it might weary us of our very lives.”

Ifs Light Might Return Burden Noses Settling Weary Trifles

Author:Fredrika Bremer

“The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.”

House Wife Security Return Husband Permanent Employee

Author:Germaine Greer

“[At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.”

Trying Age Causes Understanding Return Understood

Author:Leonora Carrington

“Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?”

Knows Self Childhood Return Do You Know Sincerely

Author:Anita Desai

“... show respect for your money ... Then your money will think and care about you in return.”

Thinking Shows Care Return Show Respect

Author:Suze Orman

“Rule number something or other -- never tell anybody anything unless you're going to get something better in return.”

Numbers Return Something Better

Book:Deadlock

Source: Deadlock

“Artists will sometimes speak of Rome with disparagement or indifference while it is before them; but no artist ewer lived in Rome and then left it, without sighing to return.”

Art Sometimes Artist Left Speak Return Indifference Rome

Book:Six Months in Italy

Source: Six Months in Italy

“If we can return to a government that the Founders, in their wisdom, envisioned for us, we can return to a government that will allow our economy to thrive again, and our people to live in liberty.”

People Ifs Government Liberty Economy Return Thrive Founders

Author:Nan Hayworth

“Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed, while the curtains of the next are brushed by shadow of the dance. A wedding-party returns from church, and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and the sadness of life are the tragi-comedy of Shakespeare. Gladness and sighs brighten and dim the mirror he beholds.”

Joy Next House Church Party Grief Comedy Doors Sadness Streets Wind Return Shadow Mirrors Funeral Contrast Sigh Curtains Gladness Shutters Sadness Of Life Joy And Grief Wedding Party

Book:Pleasures of Literature

Source: Pleasures of Literature

“One bleeding-heart type asked me in a recent interview if I did not agree that 'violence begets violence.' I told him that it is my earnest endeavor to see that it does. I would like very much to ensure - and in some cases I have - that any man who offers violence to his fellow citizen begets a whole lot more in return than he can enjoy.”

Ifs Men Heart Doe Whole Enjoy Cases Violence Type Return Citizens Offers Gun Agree Fellows Interviews Endeavor Earnest Bleeding Begets Bleeding Heart

Author:Jeff Cooper

“The pleasant converse of the fireside, the simple songs of home, the words of encouragement as I bend over my school-tasks, the kiss as I lie down to rest, the patient bearing with the freaks of my restless nature, the gentle counsels mingled with reproofs and approvals, the sympathy that meets and assuages every sorrow, and sweetens every little success--all these return to me amid the responsibilities which press upon me now, and I feel as if I had once lived in heaven, and, straying, had lost my way.”

“The cheaper the stock, the better the outlook for future returns.”

Return Outlook Cheaper

Author:Robert Haugen

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