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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
Leo Buscaglia
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Leo Buscaglia
Age: 74 †
Born: 1924
Born: March 31
Died: 1998
Died: June 12
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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
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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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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
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