Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
LEO BUSCAGLIAOne does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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You are a special combination for a purpose.
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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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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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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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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
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Love creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.
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When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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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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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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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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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
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Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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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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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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Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
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Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
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The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
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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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