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The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other -… — Daniel Keyes
I truly believe that when a person makes a concrete decision and takes action towards a goal they've set, that the universe will step in… — Tamara Tunie
Avoid taking a definite stand on great public issues either in the Senate or before the people. Bend your energies towards making friends of key… — Quintus Tullius Cicero
The purpose of creation is beauty. Nature in all its various aspects develops towards beauty, and therefore it is plain that the purpose of life… — Hazrat Inayat Khan
I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or… — Michael Kenna
This revision of the Constitution will not be perfect. But at least the Constitution will not be inflexible. It will be a step towards the… — Laurent Fabius
Whenever education and refinement carry us away from the common people, they are growing towards selfishness, which is the monster evil of the world. That… — Henry Ward Beecher
If the Christian church is to move responsibly towards the future, it must restore or renew its ties with its past. Contemporary Catholic and Protestant… — Ronald H. Nash
The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme indulgence towards people, based on his awareness of… — Leo Tolstoy
The true joy of humankind is in doing that which is most proper to our nature; and the first property of people is to be… — Marcus Aurelius
I have only one purpose: to make people free, to urge them towards freedom, to help them to break away from all limitations, for that… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
You need to be prepared for firm decisions and action, without losing gentleness towards those who obstruct or abuse you. It's as great a weakness… — Marcus Aurelius
My art and my self-expression in any form has always been an attempt towards sincerity, honesty, and empathy for others. For a multitude of reasons both… — Alice Glass
We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble… — Mahatma Gandhi
Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again. — D. H. Lawrence
In our corrupted state, common weaknesses and defects contribute more towards the reconciling us to one another than all the precepts of the philosophers and… — E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
If so far we have been unable to see clearly or to reflect the eternal lineaments of truth, is it not because we too are… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The profession of the law of which he [a judge] is a part is charged with the articulation and final incidence of the successive efforts… — Learned Hand
Nothing comes of severity if there be no leanings towards a change of heart. And if there be natural leanings towards a change of heart,… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
[B]y far the larger number of the dreams... occurred towards dawn; sometimes even, after sunrise, during a "second sleep." A condition of fasting, united, possibly,… — Anna Kingsford
Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of… — Frank Howard Clark
Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves. — William Shakespeare
If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals — C.S. Lewis
We are franker towards others than towards ourselves. — Friedrich Nietzsche
History knows no scruples and no hesitation. Inert and unerring, she flows towards her goal. At every bend in her course she leaves the mud… — Arthur Koestler

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