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People are not here to meet your expectations.

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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LA
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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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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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The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
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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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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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Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
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Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
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To that there is an answer.
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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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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
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