#iri

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#spiritual #love

I went across the fields to avoid the straight highways, along the firing lines where people were shooting at a small wooded hill, which is now covered with wooden crosses and lines of graves instead of spring flowers. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#along #avoid #covered #crosses #fields

I just kind of change, constantly, what my focus is. So whatever is stimulating me or inspiring me at the time is what I focus on. ↗

— Amy Jo Johnson

#constantly #focus #i #inspiring #just

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, "Thus far and no farther." ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#barriers #erected #far #farther #industry

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life. ↗

— Ludwig van Beethoven

#life #mediator #music #sensual #spiritual

It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. ↗