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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.
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Catch the beauty of the moment!
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
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