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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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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Say yes to life! Yes to wonder, to joy, to despair. Yes to pain, yes to what you don't understand. Try yes. Try always. Try possible. Try hopeful. Try I will. And try I can.
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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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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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
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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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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
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We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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Don't over analyze your relationships.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have 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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You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
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Listening is love in action.
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One does not fall in or out of love. One grows in love.
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