1.
God is a businessman. He is not going to do business with someone who shows no sign of potential return. He invests in people who demonstrate an ability to handle what He has given them.
T. D. Jakes
God is an investor. He will not risk His resources on someone without any prospect of reward. He entrusts His blessings to those who prove they are capable of utilizing them effectively.
2.
Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.
Lauren Jauregui
Put forth positivity and you will receive kindness in return.
3.
We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.
Joni Mitchell
We are trapped on the wheel of eternity, unable to reverse but able to reflect.
4.
Since my return to America my Master, has at the desire of my friends in England given me my freedom.
Phillis Wheatley
Since my return to America, my Master has, at the behest of my acquaintances in England, granted me emancipation.
5.
Every thing that you love, you will eventually lose, but in the end, love will return in a different form.
Franz Kafka
'No matter how much you treasure something, it will eventually disappear, yet ultimately love will reappear in an altered state.'
6.
Faith includes noticing the mess, the emptiness and discomfort, and letting it be there until some light returns.
Anne Lamott
Trust entails recognizing the chaos, the vacancy and unease, and allowing it to exist until some enlightenment resurfaces.
7.
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour.
Muammar al-Gaddafi
8.
The source from which existing things derive their existence is also that to which they return at their destruction.
Anaximander
The origin from which existing things obtain their being is likewise that to which they revert at their dissolution.
9.
Originality is a return to the origin.
Antonio Gaudi
Innovation is a renaissance of the source.
10.
To be kind is good. To be kind without expecting anything in return is better.
Tariq Ramadan
To show benevolence without seeking recompense is superior.
11.
We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.
Judith Butler
We immerse ourselves in the words of literature, only to reemerge as renewed individuals with broadened horizons.
12.
The true Christian is like sandalwood, which imparts its fragrance to the axe which cuts it, without doing any harm in return.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
The genuine believer is like the lotus, whose aroma permeates the blade that severs it, without exacting any retribution.
13.
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are.
Harold S. Kushner
14.
Music begins where words are powerless to express. Music is made for the inexpressible. I want music to seem to rise from the shadows and indeed sometimes to return to them.
Claude Debussy
15.
He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.
Seneca the Younger
16.
I have received my all from God. Oh, that I could return my all to God.
David Brainerd
17.
Take the money in your wallet and invest it in your mind. And in return, your mind will fill up your wallet!
Benjamin Franklin
18.
The day the Church abandons Her universal tongue will be the day before She returns to the Catecombs.
Pope Pius XII
19.
The soul is made of love and must ever strive to return to love. Therefore, it can never find rest nor happiness in other things. It must lose itself in love. By its very nature it must seek God, who is love.
Mechthild of Magdeburg
20.
It is indifferent to me where I am to begin, for there shall I return again.
Parmenides
21.
Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
Mason Cooley
22.
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
23.
We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinians] never do return. The old will die and the young will forget,
David Ben-Gurion
25.
The law of diminishing returns is something I really believe in.
Thomas Keller
26.
I get diminishing returns when I bore myself in an interview.
Ben Harper
27.
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
Carl Rogers
28.
There is an old joke that went around- it goes, in the beginning God made man in His own image, and since the fall, man has been seeking to return the compliment.
Alistair Begg
29.
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.
Richard Rohr
30.
Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy
31.
Knowledge is the only instrument of production that is not subject to diminishing returns.
John Maurice Clark
32.
Ask yourself: Am I an investor, or am I a speculator? An investor is a person who owns business and holds it forever and enjoys the returns that U.S. businesses, and to some extent global businesses, have earned since the beginning of time. Speculation is betting on price. Speculation has no place in the portfolio or the kit of the typical investor.
John C. Bogle
33.
Quit your job. Buy a ticket. Get a tan. Fall in love. Never return.
Spencer Antle
34.
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
Deng Xiaoping
35.
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.
Sathya Sai Baba
38.
Certainly you will have doubts. There will be questionings and faith will return again. That is how faith is established.
Sarada Devi
39.
When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.
Samuel Johnson
41.
One should never do wrong in return, nor mistreat any man, no matter how one has been mistreated by him.
Socrates
43.
After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.
Judith Lewis Herman
44.
Let your heart go out and abide in things. Let things return and abide in your heart.
Dogen
45.
We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.
Gene Cernan
46.
If each day is a gift, I'd like to know where to return Mondays!
John Wagner
47.
To reduce risk it is necessary to avoid a portfolio whose securities are all highly correlated with each other. One hundred securities whose returns rise and fall in near unison afford little protection than the uncertain return of a single security.
Harry Markowitz
48.
The ellipse is as aimless as that,
Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
In our present. Its flexing is its account,
Return to the point of no return.
John Ashbery
49.
I always believed that I’d return to Cleveland and finish my career there.
LeBron James
50.
Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic forms. I think it's healthy to return to classical forms.
Michael Haneke