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You Can't Imagine The Joy I Feel When I Hear That Something I've Said Or Done Or Written Has Helped Others To Regain Their Sense Of Dignity, To Motivate Them To Develop Their Unique Potential, To Encourage Them To Reach Out To Others In Love.

-Leo Buscaglia

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You Can't Imagine The

Leo Buscaglia

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You Can't Imagine The Joy I Feel When I Hear That Something I've Said Or Done Or Written Has Helped Others To Regain Their Sense Of Dignity, To Motivate Them To Develop Their Unique Potential, To Encourage Them To Reach Out To Others In Love.

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Love Requires That We Overcome The Traditional And Self-defeating Fears That Place Distance Between Ourselves And Others.

Love And The Self Are One And The Discovery Of Either Is The Realization Of Both.

The Lover Must Often Say, "i Love Because I Must, Because I Will It. I Love For Myself, Not For Others. I Love For The Joy It Gives Me - And Incedentally, Only - For That Joy It Gives To Others. If They Reinforce Me It Will Be Good. If They Do Not, It Also Will Be Good, For I Will To Love."

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If I Don't Have Wisdom, I Can Teach You Only Ignorance.

Change Is The End Result Of All True Learning.

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Assume That People Are Good Until You Actually And Specifically Learn Differently. And Even Then, Know That They Have Potential For Change And That You Can Help Them Out.

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A Life Lived In Love Will Never Be Dull.

Happiness And Love Are Just A Choice Away.

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Merely Existing

The Most Unfortunate Thing That Happens To A Person Who Fears Failure Is That He Limits Himself By Becoming Afraid To Try Anything New.

Unfortunate Things

The Human Need To Play Is A Powerful One. When We Ignore It, We Feel There Is Something Missing In Our Lives.

As Long As You Are Free, You Are Free To Select And Choose Alternatives, Provided That You Are Willing To Accept The Responsibility For Being Free. And After You've Tried Your Alternatives, And They Don't Work As You Would Wish, Don't Blame Me. Blame Your Choice. Try Another Alternative.

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There Is Only The Moment. The Now. Only What You Are Experiencing At This Second Is Real.

The Most Painful Thing To Experience Is Not Defeat But Regret

I Still Get Wildly Enthusiastic About Little Things... I Play With Leaves. I Skip Down The Street And Run Against The Wind.

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The Greatest Risk Is To Risk Nothing At All

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In The End You Have Only You.

Let Go. Why Do You Cling To Pain? There Is Nothing You Can Do About The Wrongs Of Yesterday. It Is Not Yours To Judge. Why Hold On To The Very Thing Which Keeps You From Hope And Love?

Forgive Others, Forgive Yourself, Forgive Yourself For Not Being Perfect, And Accept Responsibility For Your Own Life.

One Does Not Fall "in" Or "out" Of Love. One Grows In Love.

Say "yes" To Life! "yes" To Wonder, To Joy, To Despair. "yes" To Pain, "yes" To What You Don't Understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "i Will." And Try "i Can."

In A Crazy World, It's Only Your Insanity That Will Keep You Sane

Based On A String Of Bad Breakups, I Was Forced To Examine My Choice Of Partners. Surely, That Must Have Abolished Me From Any Wrongdoing.

It Is When We Ask For Love Less And Begin Giving It More That The Basis Of Human Love Is Revealed To Us.

Listening Is Love In Action.

Never Idealize Others. They Will Never Live Up To Your Expectations.

Man Is Happiest When He Is Creating. In Fact, The Highest State Of Which Man Is Capable Lies In The Creative Act.

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.

The Only Lasting Trauma Is The One We Suffer Without Positive Change.

Positive Change

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.

Ancient Egyptians Believed That Upon Death They Would Be Asked Two Questions And Their Answers Would Determine Whether They Could Continue Their Journey In The Afterlife. The First Question Was, 'did You Bring Joy?' The Second Was, 'did You Find Joy?

One Cannot Give What He Does Not Possess. To Give Love You Must Possess Love. To Love Others You Must Love Yourself.

Education Should Be The Process Of Helping Everyone To Discover His Uniqueness." -leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

To Live In Love Is Life's Greatest Challenge. It Requires More Sublety, Flexibility, Sensitivity, Understanding, Acceptance, Tolerance, Knowledge And Strength Than Any Other Human Endeavor.

There Are Two Big Forces At Work, External And Internal. We Have Very Little Control Over External Forces Such As Tornadoes, Earthquakes, Floods, Disasters, Illness And Pain. What Really Matters Is The Internal Force. How Do I Respond To Those Disasters? Over That I Have Complete Control.

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.

Love Is Always Open Arms.

You Are The Only You ... You Are The Best You. You Will Always Be The Second Best Anyone Else.

Love Is Trusting, Accepting, And Believing, Without Guarantee. Love Is Patient And Waits, But It's An Active Waiting, Not A Passive One. For It Is Continually Offering Itself In A Mutual Revealing, A Mutual Sharing. Love Is Spontaneous And Craves Expression Through Joy, Through Beauty, Through Truth, Even Through Tears.

Value Yourself. The Only People Who Appreciate A Doormat Are People With Dirty Shoes.

Don't Smother Each Other. No One Can Grow In The Shade.

Happiness Is Intrinsic, It's An Internal Thing. When You Build It Into Yourself, No External Circumstances Can Take It Away.

We Created Time, And Now We Have Become The Slave Of Time.

To This Day I Cannot See A Bright Daffodil, A Proud Gladiola, Or A Smooth Eggplant Without Thinking Of Papa. Like His Plants And Trees, I Grew Up As A Part Of His Garden.

Love Is Not Some Complex, Mystical Abstraction. It Is Something Accessible And Human That We Learn Through Our Everyday Experience, As Often At Times Of Failure As In Moments Of Ecstasy.

Each Of Our Acts Makes A Statement As To Our Purpose.

Every Day We Are Offered New Means For Learning And Growing In Love.

There Is A Good Deal Of Excellent Research On Child's Play. It Has Shown Conclusively That Through Play, With The Freedom Of Action It Allows And The Stressless Environment In Which It Occurs, Children Discover, Relate To And Define Themselves And Their World. ...it Is, Therefore, Paradoxical That Many Educators And Parents Still Differentiate Between A Time For Learning And A Time For Play.

Why Do Some People Always See Beautiful Skies And Grass And Lovely Flowers And Incredible Human Beings, While Others Are Hard-pressed To Find Anything Or Any Place That Is Beautiful?

Love Is Always Changing And Unless We Stay Aware And Change With It, It Eludes Us.

When We Give Ourselves In Love We Become Our Most Vulnerable. We Are Never Safe. We Become Open To Disappointment And Hurt.

I Believe That You Control Your Destiny, That You Can Be What You Want To Be. You Can Also Stop And Say, 'no, I Won't Do It, I Won't Behave His Way Anymore. I'm Lonely And I Need People Around Me, Maybe I Have To Change My Methods Of Behaving,' And Then You Do It.

When It Comes To Giving Love, The Opportunities Are Unlimited, And We Are All Gifted.

We Seem To Gain Wisdom More Readily Through Our Failures Than Through Our Successes. We Always Think Of Failure As The Antithesis Of Success, But It Isn't. Success Often Lies Just The Other Side Of Failure.

Experience Seems To Convince Us That Only Fools Trust, That Only Fools Believe And Accept All Things. If This Is True, Then Love Is Most Foolish. For If It Is Not Founded On Trust, Belief And Acceptance, It's Not Love.

A Wonderful Realization Will Be The Day You Realize That You Are Unique In All The World. The World Is An Incredible Unfulfilled Tapestry, And Only You Can Fulfill That Tiny Space That Is Yours.

It Is Difficult For Some People To Accept That Love Is A Choice. This Seems To Run Counter To The Generally Accepted Theory Of Romantic Love Which Expounds That Love Is Inborn And As Such Requires No More Than To Accept It. This Theory Believes That Love Is A Magical Force Which Frees Us From All Suffering And Solves Every Problem, That It Is An End Unto Itself. To A Limited Extent, There May Be Some Truths To Each Of These Beliefs, But Having The Capacity To Love Is Not The Same As Having The Ability To Love.

Education Should Be The Process Of Helping Everyone To Discover His Uniqueness, To Teach Him How To Develop That Uniqueness, And Then To Show Him How To Share It Because That’s The Only Reason For Having Anything.

I Love To Think That The Day You're Born, You're Given The World As A Birthday Present.

We Need To Learn To Let Go As Easily As We Grasp And We Will Find Our Hands Full And Our Minds Empty.

Change. It Has The Power To Uplift, To Heal, To Stimulate, Surprise, Open New Doors, Bring Fresh Experience And Create Excitement In Life. Certainly It Is Worth The Risk.

I Exist, I Am, I Am Here, I Am Becoming, I Make My Own Life And No One Else Makes It For Me. I Must Face My Own Shortcomings, Mistakes, Transgressions. No One Can Suffer My Non-being As I Do, But Tomorrow Is Another Day, And I Must Decide To Leave My Bed And Live Again. And If I Fail, I Don't Have The Comfort Of Blaming You Or Life Or God.

A Wonderful Realization Will Be The Day You Realize That You Are Unique In All The World. There Is Nothing That Is An Accident. You Are A Special Combination For A Purpose -- And Don't Let Them Tell You Otherwise, Even If They Tell You That Purpose Is An Illusion. (live An Illusion If You Have To). You Are That Combination So That You Can Do What Is Essential For You To Do. Don't Ever Believe That You Have Nothing To Contribute. The World Is An Incredibly Unfulfilled Tapestry. And Only You Can Fulfill That Tiny Space That Is Yours.

Celebrate Your Humanness, Celebrate Your Craziness, Celebrate Your Inadequacies, Celebrate Your Loneliness ... But Celebrate You!

To Live In Love Is To Live In Life, And To Live In Life Is To Live In Love

If He Desired To Know About Automobiles, He Would, Without Question, Study Diligently About Automobiles. If His Wife Desired To Be A Gourmet Cook, She'd Certainly Study The Art Of Cooking, Perhaps Even Attending A Cooking Class. Yet, It Never Seems As Obvious To Him That If He Wants To Live In Love, He Must Spend At Least As Much Time As The Auto Mechanic Or The Gourmet In Studying Love.

Cooking Classes

The Oppposite Of Love Is Not Hate - It's Apathy.

Your Talent Is God's Gift To You.

Gifts And Talents

One Must Never Be Satisfied With His Ability To Love. No Matter Where He Is, It Is Always Just A Beginning.

Ability To Love

What We Call The Secret Of Happiness Is No More A Secret Than Our Willingness To Choose Life.

Make Others Happy

If One Wishes To Know Love, One Must Live Love, In Action. Thoughts, Readings And Discourse On Love Are Of Value Only As They Present Questions To Be Acted Upon.

Don't Look Over People's Shoulders. Look In Their Eyes. Don't Talk At Your Children. Take Their Faces In Your Hands And Talk To Them. Don't Make Love To A Body, Make Love To A Person.

You Have Choice. You Can Select Joy Over Despair. You Can Select Happiness Over Tears. You Can Select Action Over Apathy. You Can Select Growth Over Stagnation. You Can Select You. And You Can Select Life. And It's Time That People Tell You You're Not At The Mercy Of Forces Greater Than Yourself. You Are, Indeed, The Greatest Force For You.

Happiness Comes Only When We Push Our Brains And Hearts To The Farthest Reaches Of Which We Are Capable. The Purpose Of Life Is To Matter-to Count, To Stand For Something, To Have It Make So Difference That We Lived At All.

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