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Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
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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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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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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
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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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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
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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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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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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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One does not fall in or out of love. One grows in love.
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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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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'
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