Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO BUSCAGLIAOnly the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO BUSCAGLIALive nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
LEO BUSCAGLIAChange. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThe hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWe always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWe all need each other.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThe 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIt is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIt’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWhen we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWhat we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO BUSCAGLIAA 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAA wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIASuccess often lies just the other side of failure.
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