Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
LEO BUSCAGLIAI’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it.
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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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I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be.
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A life lived in love will never be dull.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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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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When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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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.
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It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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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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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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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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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