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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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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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Love creates an us without destroying the me.
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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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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
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Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
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Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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