Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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Care Compliment Ear Honesty Kind Life Listen Potential Power Smile Touch Underestimate Words
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
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Choose Inspirational Meaning Significance Time Wasted Time
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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Forever Live Love
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
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Creation Slave Time
Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
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Bright Happen Live Occasion Positive
We all need each other.
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Each Other Need One Liner Togetherness Unite
Change is the end result of all true learning.
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Change Inspirational Learning One Liner Result True
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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Act Capable Creation Creative Happiness Man State
Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
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Challenge Death Each Other Inspirational Love Wasted Time
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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Cease Death Development Doubt Expectation Growth Love Madness Need
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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Cruel Expectation Gentle Strong Weak
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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Beauty Catch Eat Flower Live Love Moments Talk
I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
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Available Force Learning Love Miracle Performance Powerful Real Strength
The 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.
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Avoid Change Feeling Growth Inspirational Learning Life Love Person Risk Sorrow Suffering
Perfect love is rare indeed.
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Indeed Love One Liner Perfection Rare
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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Acceptance Forgiveness Love Self Love Source Wonderful Yourself
A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
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Best Friend Bond Friendship Garden Rose World
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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Gain Giving Hesitation Joy Love True
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Deep Expectation Ideal Inspirational Live
We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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Bond Break Up Death Friendship Lose Love People

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