Lea

“Between my sleeping and dreaming,
Between me and the one in me
Who I suppose I am,
A river flows without end.

“30 August 1933”
― Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

“If what you have seems insufficient to you, then though you possess the world, you will yet be miserable.”
― Seneca

“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Tara Westover, Educated

“One has either to take people as they are, or leave them as they are. One cannot change them, one can merely disturb their balance. A human being, after all, is not made up of single pieces, from which a single piece can be taken out and replaced by something else.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice