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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
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Novelist
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University Teacher
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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To be is to do, says the existentialist. One only becomes real (human) at the point of action.
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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 smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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One does not fall in or out of love. One grows in love.
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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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As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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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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Don't spend your precious time asking Why isn't the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better? To that there is an answer.
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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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In the end you have only you.
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One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
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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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