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The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

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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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
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Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.
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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
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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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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.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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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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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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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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That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.
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A life lived in love will never be dull.
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Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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