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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
Writer
LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Bend
Breaking
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Inspirational
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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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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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.
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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.
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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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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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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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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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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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In the end you have only you.
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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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To love is to risk not being loved in return.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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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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