Top 86 Sonja's Quotes
#1. The two men looked at each other for a moment. Then Sonja's father nodded. And Ove nodded curtly back. And then they rose to their feet, objective and determined, in the way two men might behave if they had just agreed to go and kill a third man.
Henning Koch
#2. Even after Sonja graduated secondary school at the top of her class and matriculated to the city university biology department, their parents found more to love in Natasha. Sonja's gifts were too complex to be understood, and therefore less desirable.
Anthony Marra
#3. Exercise may very well be the most effective instant happiness booster of all activities,
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#4. Gratitude is an antidote to negative emotions, a neutralizer of envy, hostility, worry, and irritation. It is savoring; it is not taking things for granted; it is present oriented.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#5. The generation of choice has left us no choices. As our world turns and we devour ourselves. We stare into the eyes of our children, a brilliant reflection of our image. And, we blame them for what we see.
Sonja Cassandra Perdue
#6. I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing.
Sonja Henie
#7. I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#8. The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#9. In a corner of her heart she imagined her compassion as kindling that could ignite not only her tender and guarded feelings for her mother, but also jump across the void and ignite her mother's feelings for her.
Sonja Yoerg
#10. If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#11. Death was a cold and endless place. At least life served vodka.
Sonja Yoerg
#12. In all likelihood, Sonja had more academic journal subscriptions than friends. She could explain advanced calculus to her fifth-form algebra teacher but couldn't tell a joke to a boy at lunch.
Anthony Marra
#13. I loved to write; in my late teens I had a 'zine. But it wasn't until I went back to school, later on in my 20s, that I actually saw that I had writing talent.
Sonja Sohn
#14. But for her there was no possibility of a clear conscience, merely the weak absolution of honesty, of confession.
She could not buy into the cycle of sin and penance. She would always remember what she had done, and it would always sting. She would not be washed clean.
Sonja Yoerg
#15. It turns out that the process of working toward a goal, participating in a valued and challenging activity, is as important to well-being as its attainment.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#16. I was hers in ways that those with loyalties of convenience cannot fathom. I loved her beyond words and clothes, and yes beyond even pain. The strangest of things is the way the hungry always return to the very same hand. The hand they know. The one that cannot give.
Sonja Livingston
#18. Maybe that's what marriage does, Helen thought. One day you're holding your breath lest a ghost fly up your nose and the next your coming home as married as your own mother.
Sonja Yoerg
#20. Forgiving people are less likely to be hateful, depressed, hostile, anxious, angry, and neurotic.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#21. Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn't hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room.
Sonja Yoerg
#22. You always get that one person who hates you for absolutely no reason.
Sonja De Lange
#23. One finds a way of living for the sake of someone else's future. And it wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living.
Fredrik Backman
#24. Courage lays within easy reach of a child who knows nothing of how easily understanding can unravel, leaving a set of rules that apply to nothing, and an empty heart.
Sonja Yoerg
#25. Those are the facts but not the truth, which does not even speak the same language.
Sonja Livingston
#26. Thus the key to happiness lies not in changing our genetic makeup (which is impossible) and not in changing our circumstances (i.e., seeking wealth or attractiveness or better colleagues, which is usually impractical), but in our daily intentional activities.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#27. It's a feeling of ice miles running under your blades, the wind splitting open to let you through, the earth whirling around you at the touch of your toe, and speed lifting you off the ice far from all things that can hold you down.
Sonja Henie
#28. The world never puts a price on you higher than the one you put on yourself.
Sonja Henie
#29. Say a woman is more than the sum of her parts and I'll listen. Say she is more than fruit and blossom and branch and I'll nod my head yes. But say the body does not want and I will fall to the floor under the weight of a world that does not need the sweet talk of a heartbeat.
Sonja Livingston
#30. Happiness is not out there for us to find. The reason that it's not out there is that it's inside us.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#31. When I was a little girl... a movie made me realize what I wanted to be in life.
Sonja De Lange
#32. Why don't you just ease up a little bit, just be professional. Maybe you're over-investing - maybe you're caring a little too much.
Sonja Sohn
#33. To call the police is a really big deal because you don't snitch - that's the culture you grow up in.
Sonja Sohn
#35. How she envied Diesel. He could love someone without knowing them.
Sonja Yoerg
#36. In terms of having to uphold something, I don't need any added pressure. I need to be free in the work.
Sonja Sohn
#37. Every day you have to renew your commitment. Some of the strategies should become habitual over time and not a huge effort.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#38. happiness, more than anything, is a state of mind, a way of perceiving and approaching ourselves and the world in which we reside.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#39. What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.
Sonja Yoerg
#40. You cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.
Nancy A. Collins
#41. Then she leans forward and whispers, "Give my love to Sonja and thank her for the loan," into his ear.
Fredrik Backman
#42. The groan of the lake was the earth tuning for a song she was desperate to hear.
Sonja Yoerg
#43. Summer was down to the last lick of ice cream before the cone collapsed.
Sonja Yoerg
#44. The past wasn't a guest you could ask to leave when you tired of its company. No, the past put up its feet and meant to stay.
Sonja Yoerg
#45. I realized that there was something internal that I could gain from pursuing this career as an actor. However, once I got into the business I just really abhorred what this career can drum up inside of a person.
Sonja Sohn
#46. just before Todd leaves for Greeley. These stomach pains also graduate to violent fevers to where he would be freezing and sweltering at the same time. Norma, a family friend, is looking after Colton at her home while Sonja is teaching a class at Imperial
Omar Elbaga
#47. Don't play any game if you don't understand the rules no matter how nice winners trophy looks like
Sonja Smolec
#48. All that is required to become an optimist is to have the goal and to practice it. The more you rehearse optimistic thoughts, the more 'natural' and 'ingrained' they will become. With time they will be part of you, and you will have made yourself into an altogether different person.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#49. How fickle it is, memory - preferring some days to others, granting first a blue sky, offering next the sound of laughter, swelling our remembrances until a largeness seeps into the grain of things and memory itself becomes billowed and flapping.
Sonja Livingston
#50. I was very academically inclined. But my inner life was in such turmoil. I'd go home and my home life was so miserable that it just felt like I was doing everything that I was supposed to do. I did all my chores, made really good grades, and I was excelling at school, but I wasn't happy.
Sonja Sohn
#51. No one tells you how hard it is to be this cool.
Sonja Yoerg
#52. [Her father] never minded when there was nothing to shoot, and she never minded when there was. The harsh crack of the rifle and the limp rabbits and doves were the practical cost of the joy of those mornings.
Sonja Yoerg
#53. If we can accept as true that life circumstances are not the keys to happiness, we'll be greatly empowered to pursue happiness for ourselves.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#54. Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
Ted Naifeh
#55. People prone to joyful anticipation, skilled at obtaining pleasure from looking forward and imagining future happy events, are especially likely to be optimistic and to experience intense emotions.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#56. It was morning distilled, the sun rising on a quiet world, a mute witness. To Liz, it was both the oldest miraculous event, and the newest. This one belonged to her, and she to it.
Sonja Yoerg
#57. What is it, the difference between ordinary people and those with genius? Not just ordinary people either. Intelligent people, sensitive ones, exceptionally talented ones. Even people like Sonja who give everything and then more, who work harder than seems possible on the thing they love.
Anna Smaill
#58. Follow the only nurse rule that can be applied to wearing a mini-skirt: it should be short enough to get to the point, and long enough to cover the important stuff, all while keeping you out of trouble.
Sonja Schwartzbach
#59. Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.
Fredrik Backman
#60. It's hard to get money to support your [non-profit] organization if you have no evidence. It's very much like the acting business: You need an agent and manager so you can get a job to get resources, but you can't get an agent and a manager unless people see your work.
Sonja Sohn
#61. If you're not happy today, then you won't be happy tomorrow unless you take things into your own hands and take action.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#62. From Mooshum to Sonja, back and forth. They wouldn't look at each other. I'm gonna ask you to leave in a nice way, Joe.
Louise Erdrich
#63. The truest, best love had nothing to do with luck. Luck was faithless, and worth little. True love wasn't fancy and it wasn't magical, but simply true in every sense: honest, loyal and sure.
Sonja Yoerg
#64. All my life I have wanted to skate, and all my life I have skated.
Sonja Henie
#66. Hiking's not for everyone. Notice the wilderness is mostly empty.
Sonja Yoerg
#67. The combination of rumination and negative mood is toxic. Research shows that people who ruminate while sad or distraught are likely to feel besieged, powerless, self-critical, pessimistic, and generally negatively biased.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#68. Getting closer to someone doesn't necessarily clarify anything. It's like staring at an electron micrograph. You're closer but nothing's any simpler.
Sonja Yoerg
#69. [Optimism] is not about providing a recipe for self-deception. The world can be a horrible, cruel place, and at the same time it can be wonderful and abundant. These are both truths. There is not a halfway point; there is only choosing which truth to put in your personal foreground.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#70. If I am to die tonight, let me die a fighter.
Gail Simone
#71. In a nutshell, the fountain of happiness can be found in how you behave, what you think, and what goals you set every day of your life.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#72. The practice of gratitude is incompatible with negative emotions and may actually diminish or deter such feelings as anger, bitterness, and greed.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#73. She had gills while other people were breathing with lungs. There was, however, no point in dwelling on it, as it was too later to grow up differently.
Sonja Yoerg
#75. Stick to your charms, they give the illusion that some beauty resides in you somewhere. Insecurity shows the real serpent you are and you are in this moment a venomous snake.
Faye Sonja
#76. Last but not least, the happiest people do have their share of stresses, crises, and even tragedies. They may become just as distressed and emotional in such circumstances as you or I, but their secret weapon is the poise and strength they show in coping in the face of challenge.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#78. It wasn't as if Ove also died when Sonja left him. He just stopped living. Grief is a strange thing.
Fredrik Backman
#79. I studied acting for five years. I quit college at that point. You know, I go hard. When I know I'm supposed to go in a direction, I'm fully committed and I go all the way. Everything falls to the side and I'm all in. So I completely dove into acting even though I was almost 30.
Sonja Sohn
#80. The careless arrows of misfortune were tangents glancing off the pure circle of her dreams.
Sonja Yoerg
#81. I use the term happiness to refer to the experience of joy, contentment, or positive well-being, combined with a sense that one's life is good, meaningful, and worthwhile.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#82. It is equally important to investigate wellness as it is to study misery.
Sonja Lyubomirsky
#83. My own perception of cops was that they came into your neighborhood, they roughed up people that you loved for no reason and took them away. As a child you saw that.
Sonja Sohn
#84. What goodness she might hold in her heart had been overshadowed by her actions, again and again, She wasn't a bad person, but she might was well be.
Sonja Yoerg
#85. Even though the neighborhood I grew up in had some unhealthy elements, there was a caring there where you knew that you didn't want to get caught doing something wrong. There were bright spots in the neighborhood where I felt nurtured on a community level.
Sonja Sohn
#86. This is why Sonja Lyubomirsky, a leader in the scientific study of well-being, has written that she prefers the phrase "creation or construction of happiness" to the more popular "pursuit," since "research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves."13
Shawn Achor
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