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You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

Leo Buscaglia

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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
Joy
Choices
Stagnation
Happiness
Apathy
Action
Despair
Tears
Choice
Choose
Growth

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Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
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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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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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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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If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
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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 life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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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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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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He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.
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If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
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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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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
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