Sonia Quotes

Use #‎ meditation as a tool to get quiet.

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

The freedom the bars give women is not the same freedom a woman on the street or in a brothel has. That's more like imprisonment.

No matter what you do in life, someone important to you isn't going to like it.

We don't need someone to show us the ropes. We are the ones we've been waiting for. Deep inside us we know the feelings we need to guide us. Our task is to learn to trust our inner knowing.

My shows are about the complete woman who swallows it all. It's a question of survival.

As a slave [to fashion], I can be very dramatic and very demanding of myself and of the people I work with.

It's useless to send models out on the runway to cry.

I think that the boy-woman is a very strong image and a lot of fascinating women are like that: Gala [Dalí].

My breakfast is very important.

It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.

Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don't seek out that kind of success. And others do.

Sometimes, even if there was no useful advice to give, I saw that listening still helped.

I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.

If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.

Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.

I didn't know I had a sense of limitation until I got into the greater world.

We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about.

The more you choose to do things that uplift yourself and others the more your Spirit can shine, can heal you, can lead your life. What can you do today to uplift yourself? To uplift others?

Our minds are confused, but not our souls.

Denying our weaknesses is neither power, nor protection. We cannot overcome those disabling parts of our own nature which in fact steal our power away, if we do not acknowledge they exist.

Your heart pilots you to a far better life than you could have ever dreamed of. That's how the heart works.

Dance bars are seen as the place where gangsters go to relax and spend money.

Since the gangsters are glamorized, by extension the women they sleep with are also necessarily glamorous.

The mid-life crisis hits men harder than women.

I can be happy with something I did, like a drawing or a dress I designed, and yet be very disappointed with the same drawing, or the same dress the day after.

I have to say that the identity of a fashion designer is international today.

It is a very important matter, as a woman, to juggle everything... Your professional life, family, children etc.

With the exception of lingerie and theater I'm interested in everything to do with clothes and perfumes: everything which is an extension of woman.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

Diabetes taught me discipline.

It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.

I am growing to love DC.This [Washington] is a beautiful city. I think every citizen should come see their capital. A lot of the museums are free, there are restaurants that are reasonably priced.

In the wider context, what I believe I was - the point I was making was that our life experiences do permit us to see some facts and understand them more easily than others.

I think being a Catholic made me a better person. It taught me how to choose good over evil, and how to be a more caring human being.

This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.

You can't say: This much love is worth this much misery. They're not opposites that cancel each other out; they're both true at the same time.

Clear focus is the mind’s magic wand. It points your creativity in a particular direction and channels your experience behind it. Wherever you clearly focus, you create.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

I like to remind people what radical means -- 'at the root of things.' It shouldn't be considered a pejorative. There isn't a great name out of history you can pick who wasn't 'radical.

Language, as symbol, determines much of the nature and quality of our experience.

Poetry ... is the music and painting of the mind.

I am like the lover of Roland Barthes "who's always running in his head". I'm always searching, and "eating" everything from my life, in order to put it in my dresses!

There are no bystanders in this life.

Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.

Dressing badly has been a refuge much of my life, a way of compelling others to engage with my mind, not my physical presence. Page. 283

I would warn any minority student today against the temptations of self-segregation: take support and comfort from your own group as you can, but don’t hide within it.

In my experience when a friend unloaded about a boyfriend or spouse, the listener soaked up the complaint and remembered it long after the speaker had forgiven the offense.

I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.