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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

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
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Labels
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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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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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Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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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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The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.
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I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
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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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To that there is an answer.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
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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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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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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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In the end you have only you.
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Listening is love in action.
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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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