Roberto Benigni Quotes

To laugh or cry is the most beautiful thing in the world

You're serving. You're not a servant. Serving is a supreme art. God is the first servant. God serves men but he's not a servant to men. - Eliseo Orefice

Buon giorno, Principessa!" #newfavoritemovie

Quando l'uomo con la pistola incontra l'uomo con la biro, l'uomo con la pistola è morto.

Gilbert, never restrained in victory, leaped to his feet with an exuberance Roberto Benigni might have found unseemly. “Thank

La vita è bella

Think of the comic heroes, like Charlie Chaplin, Jackie Chan, Jim Carrey, Kung Fu Panda, or Roberto Benigni in “Life Is Beautiful”. They win by being playful, creative, adaptive, irreverent, and unbound by norms. Those who take life too seriously are the opposite, and at a disadvantage.

L'amore è sempre rivoluzionario.

Il mondo è tessuto di armonie profonde: da qualche parte c'è scritto che c'è una cosa per tutti noi.

Quando si ride ci si lascia andare, si è nudi, ci si scopre. Quando uno ride, vedi un po’ la sua anima. E poi quando si ride ci si muove, ci si scuote, come un albero, e si lascia per terra le cose che gli altri possono vedere e magari cogliere. Gli avari e coloro che non hanno niente da offrire, infatti, non ridono.

The first reason why peer-oriented children have to harden emotionally is that they have lost their natural source of power and self-confidence and, at the same time, their natural shield against intolerable hurt and pain. Apart from the steady onslaught of tragedies and traumas occurring everywhere, the child's personal world is one of intense interactions and events that can wound: being ignored, not being important, being excluded, not measuring up, experiencing disapproval, not being liked, not being preferred, being shamed and ridiculed. What protects the child from experiencing the brunt of all this stress is an attachment with a parent. It is attachment that matters: as long as the child is not attached to those who belittle him, there is relatively little damage done. The taunts can hurt and cause tears at the time, but the effect will not be long lasting. When the parent is the compass point, it is the messages he or she gives that are relevant. When tragedy and trauma happen, the child looks to the parent for clues whether or not to be concerned. As long as their attachments are safe, the sky could collapse and the world fall apart, but children would be relatively protected from feeling dangerously vulnerable. Roberto Benigni's movie, Life Is Beautiful, about a Jewish father's efforts to shield his son from the horrors of racism and genocide, illustrates that point most poignantly. Attachment protects the child from the outside world.