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A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

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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Relationship

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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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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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In the end you have only you.
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me to cry with me, but never because of me to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
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No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must feel something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
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A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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