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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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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
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Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.
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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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We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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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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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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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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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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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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I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
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