#r

I would rather love with all my heart and soul and mind for one hour than to suffer all my life with the lack. ↗

— Barbara Samuel

#love

She always used to suspect that the price for happiness, the price for enjoying the company of a person you loved, was the steadily increasing risk of losing them, and at times, when she considered the possibility that she might lose Isabel or Clancy or, in the early days, Todd, Bernice didn't think she could stand it, didn't think she could go on living in a universe whose laws forced her to submit to such a terrible fear. Now she sees what a small price it is to pay, what staggering joy she received in return. You should be willing to pay that price for as little as a few days or hours with a person you love, she thinks, rubbing her fingers across a patch of linoleum the years have worn down to a cloudy smear. ↗

— Stephen Lovely

#loss #love #love

Help you? I’d lick you, and most girls would want to marry you if you so much as talked to them. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#love #marry #touch #love

Men were born to protect and love, and our women help us to serve a higher purpose. ↗

— Missy Lyons

#love #lust #men #women #love

At first happiness might seem like just desserts for biological fitness (more accurately, the states that would have led to fitness in the environment in which we evolved). We are happier when we are healthy, well-fed, comfortable, safe, prosperous, knowledgeable, respected, non-celibate, and loved. Compared to their opposites, these objects of striving are conducive to reproduction. The function of happiness would be to mobilize the mind to seek the keys to Darwinian fitness. When we are unhappy, we work for the things that make us happy; when we are happy, we keep the status quo. The problem is, how much fitness is worth striving for? ↗

— Steven Pinker

#problem #unhappy #love

In this county, we had to walk, eat, sleep and love in fear. ↗

— Herta Müller

#fear #love

Dass es nämlich keinen Grund dazu gab, sich für irgendetwas zu schämen, solange du es aus Liebe und Sehnsucht tatest. ↗

— Emilia Polo

#love #sehnsucht-desire #love

Ok I'm not so smart I'm working class. But it's the working class that keeps the world running and it's the working class that get exploited. What kind revolution is it that just throws out big words that working class people can't understand. Revolution or not the working class will just keep on scraping a living in the same old shitholes I'm not going to believe in any damned revolution. Love is all I'm going to believe in. -- Midori ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #love

«She had Google, and she had Wikipedia. She could look up anything obscure, any words or phrases that she didn’t understand. A romance novel was just a book, while the Internet was the Internet. The Internet would crack these nuts for sure.» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#google #internet #novel #wikipedia #love

«Gavin did not enjoy his hard work. The optimistic startup guys sending in these crazy proposals were guys who enjoyed their work. Gavin had the solid, old-fashioned idea that work should be painful, so that people would pay you for doing it. If the “work” was fulfilling, then work was a form of entertainment. The workers should be paying people for being entertained.» ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#work #love