Ava Gardner Brainy Quotes & Sayings

To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness. — Bertrand Russell

Perhaps summer's ephemeral nature is what inspires us to embrace the beach read. We tell ourselves that these twisted plots and wild characters are literary ice cream sundaes - extravagant treats that aren't as calorie-laden when we're wearing flip flops. — Sarah MacLean

My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath. — Tanc Sade

You can't just turn your heart off like a faucet; you have to go to the source and dry it out, drop by drop. — Sarah Dessen

The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. — Simone Weil

My mother always cooked, every day, proper food. We didn't have fast food. It was probably pretty much meat and two veg, but as time went on and new things came into the culture, she embraced all of that. I grew up with mealtimes and sitting around the table with proper cooking and eating. — Lesley Manville

No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized. — Blaise Pascal

The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future. — Fred Rogers

In nature nothing exists alone. — Rachel Carson