Natalie Larson > Natalie's Quotes

“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

“At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I hope the exit is joyful and i hope never to return.”
― Frida Kahlo

“Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”.”
― Frida Kahlo

“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

“i was born a bitch.
i was born a painter.”
― Frida Kahlo

“I don't give a shit what the world thinks. I was born a bitch, I was born a painter, I was born fucked. But I was happy in my way. You did not understand what I am. I am love. I am pleasure, I am essence, I am an idiot, I am an alcoholic, I am tenacious. I am; simply I am ... You are a shit.”
― Frida Kahlo

“The English word psyche, meaning “soul” or “mind,” comes from the Greek word psyche, meaning butterfly.”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“Fear is excitement without the breath,”
― Carolyn Elliott, Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power

“What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it all the rest are not only useless but disastrous.”
― Thomas Merton, The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century