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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 Loren

I eat a lot of salad, a little meat, and some fruit—that’s all. But I like sweets.
SOPHIA LOREN

Eat Fruit Meat Myself Sweet
And as I walk round the park I always think, ‘Maybe round the corner I am going to find something beautiful.’ I always think positively. It is very rare that you find me in a mood that is sad or melancholic.
SOPHIA LOREN

Beautiful Myself Positive Sad Thinking Walk
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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Exploration Life Mistake Myself Philosophy
Believe me, it is actions that count.
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Action Believe Count One Liner
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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Acceptance Generosity Happiness Life Notice Satisfaction Yourself
Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
SOPHIA LOREN

Help Live Person Yourself
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.
SOPHIA LOREN

Face Follow Love Sex Wash
Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.
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Life Mistake Oneself Pay
Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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Beautiful Elegant Maturity Youth
I am lucky. I had a very beautiful mother.
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Beautiful Luck Mom
Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
SOPHIA LOREN

Exercise Grace Street Walk Yourself
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.
SOPHIA LOREN

Children Compare Fact Life War
Transformation is something I cannot explain – too much analysis might destroy it.
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Destroy Explanation Myself Transformation
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
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Age Defeat Fountain Learning Love Mindset People True Yourself Youth
I have never judged myself by other people’s standards. I have always expected a great deal of myself, and if I fail, I fail myself.
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Expectation Failure Greatness Judgement Myself People Standard
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.
SOPHIA LOREN

Act Burn Cook Gift Love Secret Share

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.

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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.

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