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We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'

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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Coexist
Question
Least
Hurt
Everyone
Another
Cannot
Find

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Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.
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Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.
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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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To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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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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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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There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.
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Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God.
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A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
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The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
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The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.
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