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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.

Leo Buscaglia

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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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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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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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What love we've given, we'll have forever.
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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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When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
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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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I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
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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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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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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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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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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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Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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