#sure

Ah, the pleasure, the joy - a big news story that runs and runs, that is played down by some of our journalistic colleagues, saying 'it'll never happen', only to be confirmed by the Home Secretary. ↗

— Kamal Ahmed

#big #big news #colleagues #confirmed #down

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ↗

— Akhenaton

#cares #contented #contented mind #greatest #hidden

All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#art #audience #audience member #available #engage

If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#could #effective #extreme #measures #netherlands

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fight #fights #pleasure #pleasures #some

There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s. ↗

— Tori Amos

#by the time #considered #hit #industry #phenomenal

Happiness is the good life that is marked by flourishing well-being, joy, prosperity, peace, satisfaction, and pleasure. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#happiness #inspirational #joy #peace #pleasure

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?) ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#body-acceptance #body-appreciation #clitoris #female #male

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#assistance #breaking #broken #broken-glass #commuity

Forgiveness wasn’t ever easy, but a feat much more manageable when you weren’t the subject of its grace. Maybe I’d always be a broken recipient of grace. And in that musing, I found rest. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#closure #forgiveness #grace #peace #forgiveness