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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

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
Metabolism
Hug
Kissing
Changes
Everybody
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Love

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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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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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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
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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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Catch the beauty of the moment!
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Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
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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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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better? To that there is an answer.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!
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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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