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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
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Novelist
Teacher
University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Bend
Breaking
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Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better? To that there is an answer.
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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
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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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I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
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Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?
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There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
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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 created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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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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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
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If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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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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