Michelle

“I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.”
― Diana Gabaldon, Outlander

“For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use to be anything else.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“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

“Compassion is the basis of morality.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer