Isn’t it wonderful to be alive? You know, you can forget all about it. Then suddenly you remember, and think of all the things you can do. Here I am. I can walk around. I can talk. I can see things and remember things. I am alive. How wonderful!
SOPHIA LORENGood food is a celebration of life.
More Sophia Loren Quotes
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You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.
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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.
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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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Jealousy 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.
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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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The girl who swears no one has ever made love to her has a right to swear.
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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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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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Physical exercise makes you more graceful. After some gymnasitics you walk as if the whole street is yours.
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You can always dream. Life is full of dreams that you can fulfill.
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A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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You must all, somewhere deep in your hearts, believe that you have a special beauty that is like no other and that is so valuable that you must not abandon it. Indeed, you must learn to cherish it.
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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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The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.
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