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Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

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
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Passionately
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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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I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
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You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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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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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
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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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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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The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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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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