#toward

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ↗

— Andre Gide

#me #rising #serenity #sole #suits

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.' ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#i #i see #life #light #like

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#good #in the end #journey #matters #towards

I'm trying to get in the habit of, you know, picking up a book and learning how to write my feelings down, not my feelings but my thoughts, about things, and hopefully I'll moving toward the writing and directing thing soon. ↗

— Corey Haim

#book #directing #down #feelings #get

Many people flounder about in life because they do not have a purpose, an objective toward which to work. ↗

— George Halas

#because #life #many #objective #people

Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. ↗

— Garrett Hardin

#best #commons #destination #each #freedom

In recent decades this symbolic or metaphorical lyric has given way to one which leans toward metonymy. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

#given #leans #lyric #metaphorical #recent

G. I. Gurdieff, "Beelzebub's Tales to His Grandson" So-and-so-and-so-must-be; do-not-do-what-must-not-be. Mullah's favorite saying. p. 598 ↗

— Gurdieff

#being #humor #inspirational #observation #outlook

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#buried #consists #deeply #fundamental #lies

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme