After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
SOPHIA LORENSuccess, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets — ‘piccoli segreti’ — that are simmering on the burners.
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I was so skinny, they gave me the nickname stechetto – the stick. I was tall, thin, ugly and dark like an Arab girl. I looked strange. All eyes. No flesh on my bones.
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The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.
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Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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The Fountain of Youth is in your mind.
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As far as beauty is concerned, in order to be confident we must accept that the way we look and feel is our own responsibility.
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Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go so much further than people with vastly superior talent.
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You really have to be satisfied with what you are and accept from life what it still very generously offers you – and notice it, and be glad for it.
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I’m a giraffe. I even walk like a giraffe with a long neck and legs. It’s a pretty dumb animal, mind you.
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Good food is a celebration of life.
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Any woman can look her best if she feels good in her skin. It’s not a question of clothes or makeup. It’s how she sparkles.
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Style must be adapted to the woman and not vice versa. The same can be said of clothes.
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Learn to use your brains as deftly as your powder box, and then maybe you have a powder box and do not need.
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Luck assists fortune, you need to catch the moment. Otherwise the opportunity fades.
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