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You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

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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Giving
Love

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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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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
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No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!
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Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.
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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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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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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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Love creates an us without destroying the me.
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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
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Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
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