Toward Quotes
3832 Toward quotes by 2364 unique authors
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Because the culture we breathe and work in rushes against rest. It equates our worth with production and wealth and fame. The more we work…
— Mary E. DeMuth
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Yoga is an interior penetration leading to integration of being, senses, breath, mind, intelligence, consciousness, and Self. It is definitely an inward journey, evolution through…
— B.K.S. Iyengar
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The man with a cross no longer controls his destiny; he lost control when he picked up his cross. That cross immediately became to him…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems…
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Love is the outreach of self toward completion.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The masculine imagination lives in a state of perpetual revolt against the limitations of human life. In theological terms, one might say that all men,…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.
— Phillips Brooks
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Teenagers crave independence. The more self-suf-ficient we make them feel, the less hostile they are toward us.
— Haim Ginott
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The price of being oneself is so high and involves so much ruthlessness toward others (or what looks like ruthlessness in our duty-bound culture) that…
— May Sarton
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But I believe this: by and large, the United States ought to be able to choose for its President anybody that it wants, regardless of…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Too much of the education system orients students toward becoming better thinkers, but there is almost no focus on our capacity to pay attention and…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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But we are mostly what we are, and the turtle stretching toward delicious buds on high does not lighten his carapace by his resolve.
— Arthur Miller
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The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.
— Wallace Stegner
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When a man's life is destroyed or damaged by some wound or privation of soul or body, which is due to other men's actions or…
— Simone Weil
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If a poet has any obligation toward society, it is to write well. Being in the minority, he has no other choice. Failing this duty,…
— Joseph Brodsky
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Averageness is a quality we must put up with. Men march toward civilization in column formation, and by the time the van has learned to…
— Frank Moore Colby
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My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do tends…
— Jean Paul Gaultier
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You cannot collaborate with another person toward some common end unless you know him. How can you know him, and he you, unless you have…
— Sidney Jourard
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism…
— Irving Babbitt
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There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of…
— Umberto Eco
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I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the…
— Calvin Trillin
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It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It…
— Hippocrates
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward…
— E. Stanley Jones
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I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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