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The Tuning of The Heart
When all her jewelry was stolen in London, Sophia Loren, heartbroken and desperate, sat on her bed looking at the dresser.
Vittorio De Sica, who was sitting next to her, said to her: “Donna Sofi”, don’t waste your tears. We’re two Neapolitans born into poverty. Money comes and goes . Think how much I lose at the casino.. “. She answered him: What are you saying, Vitto’, I don’t understand. Those jewels were part of me… “.
Sofi, listen, he said, never cry for something that can’t cry for you.
— Spettegolo
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I despise the kind of book which tells you how to live, how to make yourself happy. Philosophers have no good news for you at this level. I believe the first duty of philosophy is making you understand what deep shit you are in!
– Slavoj Žižek
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I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.
— Agatha Christie
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Spirituality is the tuning of the heart. One can obtain it neither by study nor by piety.
― Hazrat Pir-O-Murshid Inayat Khan
