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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

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
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LA
California
Felice Leonardo Buscaglia
Doormat
Dirty
Shoes
Appreciate
Value
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This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
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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 creates an us without destroying the me.
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When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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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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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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God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
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You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
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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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Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
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If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
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Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
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It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!
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