Jenzie H

“My head is magnificently empty,
my heart dangerously full”
― Marina Tsvetaeva, Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetayeva

“He considered how what he had believed — all that seemed true about himself and everything else — had caused him to suffer. How his mind’s need to be right about its judgments had magnified the suffering. He was so afraid to take chance, so unwilling to risk, and so wary of love; held low by the imaginary weight of failures past and tragedies future...”
― Matthew Maxwell, How to Hold a Cockroach: A Book for Those Who Are Free and Don't Know It

“All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.”
― Baruch Spinoza

“Hope, he had learned, was more painful than acceptance.”
― Clare Pooley, How to Age Disgracefully