Gringolandia Frida Quotes & Sayings

But it's the temptation of so many suburban-raised children to invent tales of adversity, to create hardscrabble mythologies out of life histories marked by little more than field hockey games and orthodontist appointments. — Meghan Daum

Psalm 55:5 'Fear and trembling have beset me; horror has overwhelmed me' I began to cry and shake ferociously. — Wesley Thomas

Love is the strongest force in the world. — Corrie Ten Boom

Words ... words were one thing. Actions were a totally different ballpark. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

She would have liked to sit upon a rock and listen to words, not of any man, but detached, mysterious, poetic words that she alone would interpret through some sense inherited from sleep. — Patrick White

Let Christ's righteousness and grace, not yours, be your refuge. — Martin Luther

3)"One man's weed is another man's flower." (115). — Gloria Naylor

The most important thing for everyone in Gringolandia is to have ambition and become 'somebody,' and frankly, I don't have the least ambition to become anybody. — Frida Kahlo

Science is a satisfactory curiosity. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A wave of intense happiness washed over me, and I told myself to carry this moment as a talisman of a time in my life when I was both truly content and lucky enough to realize it. — Heather Cocks

The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison. — Thomas Carlyle

I've a great fancy to see my own funeral afore I die. — Maria Edgeworth

Eyes I dare not meet in dreams
In death's dream kingdom — T. S. Eliot

In the journey to become whole, a woman will be confronted with various forms of these stages [of personal evolution]. In doing the hard work that is required, she learns important lessons about herself and increases her capacity to see the meaning of her actions. She is then able to bring more experience, wisdom, and skill to the next challenge she must face. — Helen LaKelly Hunt

He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and eager to avenge himself, to look for his antagonist, and finds that it is he himself who has accidentally struck himself, that there is no one to be angry with, and that he must put up with and try to soothe the pain. — Leo Tolstoy