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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
Author
Novelist
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Life
Insightful
Willingness
Choose
Choices
Secret
Call
Happiness

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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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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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Listening is love in action.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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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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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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God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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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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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'
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Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
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Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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