We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWe 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.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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Love 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.
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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 created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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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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To love others you must first love yourself.
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The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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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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You are the only you. You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
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No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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The 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.
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We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
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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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Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours. And reflecting each other’s love you see infinity.
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Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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Love creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.
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Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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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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