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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAToo 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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When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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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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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.
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The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.
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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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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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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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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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Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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Success often lies just the other side of failure.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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