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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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Teacher
University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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To that there is an answer.
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That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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In the end you have only you.
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I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
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Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
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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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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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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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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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Love withers with predictability its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
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There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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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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