We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
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Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
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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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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
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Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.
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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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Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
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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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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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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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You are a special combination for a purpose.
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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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Success often lies just the other side of failure.
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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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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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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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We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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A life lived in love will never be dull.
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We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
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This loving person is a person who abhors waste – waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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