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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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Novelist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must feel something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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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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Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
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We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
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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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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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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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One does not fall in or out of love. One grows in love.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
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I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
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Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
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