Ovid on return
Ovid101 quotes“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
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What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.
OvidOvid Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.
OvidOvid Hurry to your goal together. That is full bliss when man and woman lie equally conquered.
OvidOvid Death is less bitter punishment than death’s delay.
OvidOvid I can live neither with you, nor without you.
OvidOvid First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, ‘I believe,’ three times.
OvidOvid What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
OvidOvid The burden which is well borne becomes light.
OvidOvid It is the poor man who’ll ever count his flock.
OvidOvid Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.
OvidOvid I flee who chases me and chase who flees me.
OvidOvid Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.
OvidOvid It’s right to learn, even from the enemy.
OvidOvid Love is a thing that is full of cares and fears.
OvidOvid Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.
OvidOvid Every lover is a soldier.
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People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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As you rest into stillness more profoundly, awareness becomes free of the mind’s compulsive control, contractions, and identifications.
AdyashantiAdyashanti Awareness naturally returns to its non-state of absolute unmanifest potential, the silent abyss beyond all knowing.
AdyashantiAdyashanti From this voyage no one returns poor or weary.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return.
AnonymousAnonymous Heaven always shower His mercy on us and we return it with our cruelty.
Aftab AlamAftab Alam Jesus left a long time ago, said he would return. He left us a book to believe in, in it we’ve got an awful lot to learn.
Marvin GayeMarvin Gaye The revolution of a wheel which returns in the end to the same place; the revolving door of a politics which has liberated women only to use them, and only within the limits of male tolerance.
Adrienne RichAdrienne Rich What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven.
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