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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
Author
Novelist
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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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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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
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Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
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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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Catch the beauty of the 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 growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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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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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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A life lived in love will never be dull.
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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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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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