Ray

“I wish to live for myself. I should never want to be trapped.”
― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.”
― Anatole France

“Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice