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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

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
Teacher
University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!
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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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We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
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To that there is an answer.
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Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
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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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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), Do you love me?Of course, he replies. I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I'm drinking it, aren't I?Love still needs expression between those who share it
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A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
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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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I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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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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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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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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