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21 " It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now he was the Prodigal Son. "
― G.K. Chesterton
22 " O youth! youth! you go your way heedless, uncaring – as if you owned all the treasures of the world; even grief elates you, even sorrow sits well upon your brow. You are self-confident and insolent and you say, 'I alone am alive – behold!' even while your own days fly past and vanish without trace and without number, and everything within you melts away like wax in the sun .. like snow .. and perhaps the whole secret of your enchantment lies not, indeed, in your power to do whatever you may will, but in your power to think that there is nothing you will not do: it is this that you scatter to the winds – gifts which you could never have used to any other purpose. Each of us feels most deeply convinced that he has been too prodigal of his gifts – that he has a right to cry, 'Oh, what could I not have done, if only I had not wasted my time. "
― Ivan Turgenev , First Love
23 " There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: " In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom. "
24 " We must not be too prodigal with our angels; they are the last divinities we harbor, and they might fly away. "
― Jorge Luis Borges , Selected Non-Fictions
25 " Courage is generosity of the highest order for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things. "
26 " Every day is a little life ... live every day as if it would be the last. Those that dare lose a day are dangerously prodigal those that dare misspend it are desperate. "
27 " Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. "
28 " So prodigal was I of youth Forgetting I was young I worshipped dead men for their strength Forgetting I was strong. "
29 " If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home. "
