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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me to cry with me, but never because of me to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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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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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all
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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
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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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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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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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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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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
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Listening is love in action.
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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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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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The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.
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A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
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