#iri

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit. ↗

— John Updike

#breathing #certain #offers #room #space

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

Religion is run by thought police. 'Obey. Listen. This is what you do. Don't ask questions. Go die for your country.' The spirituality says, 'Okay, you can die for your country, but know what you're doing while you're doing it.' ↗

— Tommy Chong

#country #die #doing #go #know

In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#call #consciousness #definition #life #same

And hence he must be invisible; for a spirit cannot be seen by the eye of man: nor is there any thing in this principle contradictory to reason or experience. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#cannot #contradictory #experience #eye #hence

We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#always #bit #english #found #irish

We hope the world will act in the spirit of enlightened self-interest. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#enlightened #hope #self-interest #spirit #will

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources. ↗

— Luc de Clapiers

#greatest #greatest achievement #human #human spirit #live

There is something more spiritual to us than what we are on this earth, but how you access it I'm not sure. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#earth #how #i #more #something

You think that religion is a thing that is there to help you and to see you through life, and then you wake up one morning and find the entire Irish situation, the civil war that's based on religion. ↗

— Midge Ure

#civil #civil war #entire #find #help