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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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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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When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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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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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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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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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 loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.
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Catch the beauty of the moment!
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
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Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
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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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Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!
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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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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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