Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
SOPHIA LORENJealousy is a miserable feeling. It means you aspire to something that you cannot have. Even in love, it is better to leave, better not to waste time.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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Sex is like washing your face – just something you do because you have to. Sex without love is absolutely ridiculous. Sex follows love, it never precedes it.
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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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Beauty is no handicap if you don’t think about it.
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The first woman was created from the rib of a man. She was not made from his head to top him, nor from his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal to him.
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A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view.
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Be honest about what you can get. To make a sacrifice and to get what you want you need to be very certain. In other words: always think about your objective, have a clear goal and commit to it from the heart.
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The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.
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When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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Sometimes when you involve yourself in so many things, you can’t do any of them well – and I like to do everything perfectly.
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I firmly believe we can make our own miracles if we believe strongly enough in ourselves and our mission on earth.
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My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
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The right hairstyle can make a plain woman beautiful and a beautiful woman unforgettable.
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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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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When I’m walking along in the street, I always feel that around the corner, there is something wonderful waiting for me. That’s my attitude.
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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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I was born wise. Street-wise, people-wise, self-wise. This wisdom was my birthright.
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Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.
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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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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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True happiness is impossible without solitude.
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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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The mirror of your health is your skin. If you drink, it shows in your face; if you eat the wrong foods, you have pimples. If you take care of your food and you lead a healthy life, your skin will look wonderful.
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I don’t like to run. I don’t like to jump up and down. Being a big girl and having a bosom, I injure myself! It upsets me, I have to hold my two things. I just can’t jog, there’s something in the way.
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