Amy

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

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.”
― Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre

“We are not all born at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later... Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.”
― Mary Austin