#ships

She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make? ↗

— Toni Morrison

#relationships #women #pleasure

Just because a person successfully steers a voyage through hell doesn't mean he ever wants to sail that route again. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hell #overcoming-adversity #richelle #richelle-goodrich #suffering

I went to bed without reading, instead staring out my window with the curtains drawn, wondering about boys. Why did they behave so oddly? One minute their teasing was relentless, and then bam! -- they’d stun you with a thoughtful gesture. Either way, their actions made you want to cry. Maybe that was the intent. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#boys #crying #relationships #richelle #richelle-goodrich

All my other relationships with men, there was so much maneuvering and strategic decisions and stuff. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#maneuvering #men #much #other #relationships

Relationships do not preclude issues of morality. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#morality #preclude #relationships

I want to spark ideas and conversations and inspire people to take active roles in their communities, relationships and their well-being. ↗

— Ricki Lake

#communities #conversations #i #ideas #inspire

Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy. ↗

— Dalai Lama

#happy #hardships #physical #very

Mankind are divided into sects, and individuals think very differently on religious subjects, from the purest motives; and that gracious common Parent, who loves all his children alike, beholds with approbation every one who worships him in sincerity. ↗

— Joseph Lancaster

#approbation #beholds #children #common #differently

The whole thing about making films in an organic film on location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across. ↗

— Mike Leigh

#accidents #across #also #characters #film

It's a spirit that was given me and the relationships and meeting all these great people, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong; through Max I met a lot of people too. My first album was with Benny Carter. ↗

— Abbey Lincoln

#armstrong #benny #carter #duke #duke ellington