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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.

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
Writer
LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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Euphoric
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Tensions
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Joyful
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Things
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You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.
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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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There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
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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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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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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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To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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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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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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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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Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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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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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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