We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIn the end you have only you.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.
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A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
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The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another’s, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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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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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 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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