Azzedine Alaia Quotes

I don't care what people think about me because I know I am more than all the pain and strife they hold inside.

They can put me in a jungle. Still, I can create.

The important thing to know is that life will always deal us a few bad cards, but we have to play those cards the best we can. And we can play to win. This was one lesson I picked up when I was a teenager. It has been my guiding principle ever since. When I wanted something, the best person to depend on was myself.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.

I learned not to care what other people think.

I have a mentality of not worrying about what people say about me, good or bad. That's not what I'm putting my energy into.

I could be two sets, two legs down but I wouldn't think that. I take each leg as it comes.

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

The soft and weak can overcome the hard and strong.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

But I still think it's mind over matter in the sense that if you're strong, you can combat anything.

I think it's an amazing quality to be able to roll with the punches and not be totally ruined as a person because life's been rough for you. That's a really admirable way to go through your life.

I always want my options to be open.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Suffer not thy wrongs to shroud thy fate, But turn, my soul, to blessings which remain.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

The way we can allow ourselves to do what we need to, no matter what others may say or do, is to choose love and defy fear.

We all survive more than we think we can.

That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I think it's the human spirit inside of all of us that has an enormous capacity to survive.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

Once you lose everything, what's the worst that's going to happen to you? You develop a self-assurance.