Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThe person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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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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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I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
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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 are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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To love others you must first love yourself.
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Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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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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It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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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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Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don’t understand.
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