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Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

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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Communication
Look
Eyes
Looks
Talk
Take
Faces
Children
Eye
Make
Hands
Love
Body
People
Persons
Shoulders

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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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Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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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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Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must feel something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
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We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
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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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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
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I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
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