Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO BUSCAGLIANever idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO BUSCAGLIAMost of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThis 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAI believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be.
LEO BUSCAGLIAEducation should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
LEO BUSCAGLIANine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
LEO BUSCAGLIAYour talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWhen we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.
LEO BUSCAGLIALife is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
LEO BUSCAGLIATo love others you must first love yourself.
LEO BUSCAGLIAChange is the end result of all true learning.
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 BUSCAGLIAIf 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWe are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
LEO BUSCAGLIAEven after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.
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