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The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

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 get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
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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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Catch the beauty of the moment!
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
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To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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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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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
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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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I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
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Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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