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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

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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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.
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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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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
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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 life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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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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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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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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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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