Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
LEO BUSCAGLIAEach of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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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Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.
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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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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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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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Success often lies just the other side of failure.
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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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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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Definition of a relationship – an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
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Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.
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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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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.
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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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In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.
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In the end you have only you.
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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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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
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One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.
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Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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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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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
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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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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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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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