"Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool."

-- Esther Williams

#Girl Quotes #Character Quotes #Swimming Quotes

“Life is a team sport; it's not about you.”
“But while I'd be their daughter, while I'd eat the roast and come home from dates and wash the dishes, I would also be myself. I would love my mother, but I'd never want to be her again. I would never be what someone else wanted me to be. I would never laugh at a joke I didn't think was funny. I would never tell another lie. I would be the truth-teller, starting today. That would be tough. But I was tougher.”
“My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.”
“There were a lot of signs being thrown at me. A lot of angels I was meeting, inspiring me to get back into show business.”
“Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.”

Source : Carson McCullers (1961). “Clock without hands”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake.”
“Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.”

Source : "Ideas for modern living: love" by François Lelord, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2011.
“Iran is a major threat to the well-being of Europe and America just as much as it is for the state of Israel.”

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