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Listening is love in action.

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
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Listening
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Love

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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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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me to cry with me, but never because of me to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
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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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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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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), Do you love me?Of course, he replies. I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I'm drinking it, aren't I?Love still needs expression between those who share it
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Catch the beauty of the moment!
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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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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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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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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