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Nothing is worth more than laughter. It is strength to laugh and to abandon oneself, to be light. Tragedy is the most ridiculous thing.


Frida Kahlo

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JAMES C. DOBSON I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY To be loved is a strength. To love is a weakness.
ZSA ZSA GABOR The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN I love Frida Kahlo.
PAZ DE LA HUERTA I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don't want to be honest all the time.
DAN ARIELY There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
PALOMA FAITH Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA People know your tragedies and they treat you like
you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h...
ERIC JEROME DICKEY The art of Frida Kahlo is a ribbon around a bomb' (Andre Breton qtd. p. 55)
CHRISTINA BURRUS And I knew that it was possible he wasn't entirely right for me, but I also knew, in some way...
CATHERINE LACEY To err is human, but it feels divine.
MAE WEST If you are unable to laugh, then look for a clown or comedian
SOTONYE ANGA Having a child doesn't make a woman a mother any more than owning a paintbrush makes her Frida K...
KOREN ZAILCKAS If you did not laugh at least 3 times in a day, then you have missed the best part of your day
SOTONYE ANGA I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... Mais Frida ne se représente pas comme un personnage sacré, car elle constate son état avec une cr...
HAYDEN HERRERA The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI I judge the world by my own lights
and I come by my own hand.
CATHERINE MADSEN Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
FRANCOISE SAGAN To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter.
FRANCOISE SAGAN (PSEUDONYM OF FRANCOISE QUOIREZ) To jealousy, nothing is more frightful than laughter
F. SAGAN The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Ich habe immer gedacht, dass ich die seltsamste Person auf dieser Welt bin, aber später dachte ich,...
FRIDA KAHLO Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I want to be honest, and even if that's scary, I know it's worth it.
EMM GRYNER Romance is quite an overblown word. This idea of chocolates and champagne and that's it. There&#...
JOANNA LUMLEY To be honest, there are no problems between me and Messi. People have their own opinions about who t...
CRISTIANO RONALDO Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
PROVERB It's important not to insist that people try things against their will. The palate is for pleasure, ...
F. G. HAGHENBECK Sufrí dos accidentes graves en la vida. El primero ocurrió cuando me atropelló un tranvía... El ...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE i paint flowers so they will not die
FRIDA KAHLO They will say I smoked cigarettes and marijuana, cursed hoarse as a crow in all my languages, and lo...
KATE BRAVERMAN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER One picture is worth 1,000 denials.
RONALD REAGAN The key to success is action, and the essential in action is perseverance.
SUN YAT-SEN To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
E. W. HOWE Despite his best efforts, maintaining dignity in a head attached to an unclean body wrapped in uncle...
DAN GROAT The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself i...
ANDRE BRETON Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON [If a man] postpone[s] any open acknowledgement... that his own faith is in direct opposition to the...
C.S. LEWIS To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
CRAIG GROESCHEL To abandon affirmative action is to say there is nothing more to be done about discrimination.
CORETTA SCOTT KING Then the face of Big Brother faded away again and instead the three slogans of the Party stood out i...
GEORGE ORWELL Laughter is much better than anger.
WAYNE GERARD TROTMAN Comedy is nothing more than tragedy deferred.
PICO IYER I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her out...
MADONNA CICCONE Laughter is illusion… But THE BIGGEST ONE, which you can ever encounter in your life.
DEYTH BANGER Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk an...
GRETCHEN RUBIN A librarian for president is exactly what this country needs.
RICHARD CASTLE To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier...
VIVIEN LEIGH Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Humor is tragedy plus time
MARK TWAIN La high society de aquí me cae muy gorda y siento un poco de rabia contra todos estos ricachones, p...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE Me gusta tener amigos, pero pocos", reconoce, dando de paso su definición de la amistad: " La amist...
GéRARD DE CORTANZE I am what the water gave me, / a smoke-ring in a jar, / the braided rope / my ladder-to-the-light, /...
PASCALE PETIT One of the things that helps me tell a story through music is to create a character. I have to have ...
MADONNA CICCONE Dream your own dreams,
be your own person and image,
no matter the extremes.
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FRIDA KAHLO I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
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FRIDA KAHLO I love you more than my own skin.
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FRIDA KAHLO I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy as long as I can paint.
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FRIDA KAHLO They are a bunch of coocoo lunatic sons of bitches surrealists.
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FRIDA KAHLO I tried to drown my sorrows but the bastards learned how to swim.
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