A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove yourself- accept yourself- forgive yourself and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.
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There is nothing that is an accident.
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Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
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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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You are the only you. You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
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You are a special combination for a purpose.
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Loving memories last forever, I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time. Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for peace and comfort.
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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness, and even death.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
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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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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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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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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
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We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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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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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.
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When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.
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After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Perfect love is rare indeed.
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