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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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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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Your talent is God's gift to you.
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I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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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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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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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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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
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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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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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