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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

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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
Uniqueness
Discover
Education
Everyone
Process
Helping

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Love creates an us without destroying the me.
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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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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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Love withers with predictability its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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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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This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
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I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
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People are not here to meet your expectations.
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Listening is love in action.
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To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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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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The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
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