#toward

In happy hours, nature appears to us one with art; art perfected, -- the work of genius. And the individual, in whom simple tastes and susceptibility to all the great human influences overpower the accidents of a local and special culture, is the best critic of art. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#art

If you remain unsettled by a piece of writing, it means you are not watching the story from the outside; you've already taken a step towards it. ↗

— Daniel Day-Lewis

#means #outside #piece #remain #step

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts. ↗

— Blanche Lincoln

#based #been #behavior #come #conscience

Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. ↗

— Dennis Ross

#europeans #many #sanctions #slippery #slippery slope

A gentleman has his eyes on all those present; he is tender toward the bashful, gentle toward the distant, and merciful toward the absent. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#bashful #distant #eyes #gentle #gentleman

The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one another's defects, and the bearing of one another's burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. ↗

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

#activity #another #bearing #burdens #condition

No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#end #end of the tunnel #find #get #going

My attitude toward men who mess around is simple: If you find 'em, kill 'em. ↗

— Loretta Lynn

#attitude #find #kill #men #mess

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased. ↗

— Thomas Malthus

#constant #effort #even #found #increased