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Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

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
Inadequacies
Humanness
Inadequacy
Craziness
Celebrate
Loneliness

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To that there is an answer.
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It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), Do you love me?Of course, he replies. I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, I'm drinking it, aren't I?Love still needs expression between those who share it
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Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
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Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.
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He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
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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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In the end you have only you.
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Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
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Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
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I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
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The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
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Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.
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Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
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