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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.

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
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We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
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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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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me to cry with me, but never because of me to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
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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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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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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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Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
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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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Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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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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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
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