#ward

You’re my reward.” Oh God. I liked that he thought that. Like, a lot. So I agreed, “Okay. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#dreams

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. ↗

— Kenneth G. Wilson

#celebration #committees #confers #diligence #due

Then, still smiling, he kissed me. When he lifted his head he didn’t go far so I heard it when he whispered, “My reward.” My eyes narrowed and I snapped, “You’re not allowed to do that shit.” His head jerked slightly and he asked, “Say again?” “Be sweet and make me all melty and want to jump you when I’m celebrating my heretofore unknown badassness with a bunch of bikers and their bitches. Not to mention, I’m hungry.” Tack grinned as his arm snaked around me and he yanked me close. “You wanna jump me?” he asked. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#dreams

Those who stop chasing after their dreams because of what they're being told are cowards. ↗

— Jawe Querimit

#dreams #dreams

What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. ↗

— Dave Barry

#death #followed #forward #i #immaturity

Well, I'm leaning probably toward the sciences like physics. ↗

— Amy Carter

#leaning #like #physics #probably #sciences

The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward. ↗

— John Turturro

#because #easy #hard #know #romance

Education doesn't make you smarter. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#education

Rewards and punishment is the lowest form of education. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#form #lowest #lowest form #punishment #rewards

It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self. ↗

— Criss Jami

#barricade #coward #cowardice #desert #ego