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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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University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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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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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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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Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), Do you love me?Of course, he replies. I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I'm drinking it, aren't I?Love still needs expression between those who share it
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Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
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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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God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
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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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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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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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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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