#iri

The key to success is to keep growing in all areas of life - mental, emotional, spiritual, as well as physical. ↗

— Julius Erving

#emotional #growing #keep #key #key to success

I'm an actress and mom, and I probably don't have enough of an active spiritual life. And I don't know why people run around calling themselves by the names of religions when they don't actually practise them. ↗

— Uma Thurman

#actress #actually #around #calling #enough

They should regard me as what I am. I am a spiritual leader and teacher. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#i #i am #leader #me #regard

I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast. ↗

— Colin Firth

#biggest #coast #east #east coast #exceptions

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#future #illuminates #longer #past #spirit

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#enjoyed #father #i #joyous #just

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curious #display #drunk #inhibitions #insane

Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the goal of all your work, the final accomplishment for which you are most highly congratulated. The more exquisitely and delightfully you can do nothing, the higher your life's achievement. You don't necessarily need to be rich in order to experience this, either. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#spiritual #values-in-life #beauty

On several occasions, I discussed with Bill Clinton the subject of inquiries by the media about our relationship. He told me to continue to deny our relationship, that if we would stick together, everything would be okay. ↗

— Gennifer Flowers

#bill #bill clinton #clinton #continue #deny

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say. ↗

— Henry Fonda

#egomaniac #fact #ford #greatness #him