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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWe need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
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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Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.
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Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
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Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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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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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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Most of us are pawns in a game of love we don’t understand.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.
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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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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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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.
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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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A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
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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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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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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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Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
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Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
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Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
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We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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In the end you have only you.
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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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