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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
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Happiness
Life
Insightful
Willingness
Choose
Choices
Secret

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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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People are not here to meet your expectations.
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
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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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Say yes to life! Yes to wonder, to joy, to despair. Yes to pain, yes to what you don't understand. Try yes. Try always. Try possible. Try hopeful. Try I will. And try I can.
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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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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
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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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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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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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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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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
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