We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIADeath is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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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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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Loving memories last forever, I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time. Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for peace and comfort.
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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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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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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Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It’s up to you. It’s your choice.
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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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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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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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Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.
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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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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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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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