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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
Author
Novelist
Teacher
University Teacher
Writer
LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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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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What love we've given, we'll have forever.
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If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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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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Listening is love in action.
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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To that there is an answer.
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Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
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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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Say yes to life! Yes to wonder, to joy, to despair. Yes to pain, yes to what you don't understand. Try yes. Try always. Try possible. Try hopeful. Try I will. And try I can.
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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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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!
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He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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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