Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWhen we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
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Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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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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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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You are the only you. You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
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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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A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.
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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
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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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If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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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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Love creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.
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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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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
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Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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You are a special combination for a purpose.
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We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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Perfect love is rare indeed.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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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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