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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
Tears
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Choose
Growth
Joy
Stagnation
Choices
Apathy
Happiness
Action
Despair

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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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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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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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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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You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
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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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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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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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One does not fall in or out of love. One grows in love.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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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!
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
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The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
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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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