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

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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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Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.
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Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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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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Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
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Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
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Love withers with predictability its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), Do you love me?Of course, he replies. I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I'm drinking it, aren't I?Love still needs expression between those who share it
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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