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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

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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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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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.
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It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!
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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.
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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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Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
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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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That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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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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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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What love we've given, we'll have forever.
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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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