My philosophy is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe and not to explore at all.
SOPHIA LORENEverything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated.
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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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Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.
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Though poor and anxious to work, I refused to alter anything. They would take me as I looked or not at all. Eventually I profited by looking like myself and not like what was fashionable years ago with certain film technicians in Rome.
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Success, I would find out, is interior. It has to do with self-fulfillment and the joy of living.
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I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way – I just feel good in my skin.
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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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Until you lose your mother you don’t know what it is.
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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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If you haven’t cried, your eyes can’t be beautiful.
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Hate is unfulfilled love.
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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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Ignorance has its virtues; without it there’d be mighty little conversation.
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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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