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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

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
Bend
Breaking
Learn
Inspirational
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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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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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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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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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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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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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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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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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Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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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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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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Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
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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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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
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In the end you have only you.
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Love creates an us without destroying the me.
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