We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIAFind the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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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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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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Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
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A life lived in love will never be dull.
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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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When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don’t understand.
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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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Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.
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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.
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