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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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The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
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Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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In the end you have only you.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?
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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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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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Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
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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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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!
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Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
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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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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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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