Leo Buscaglia Quotes - Page 8

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• Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,
  but it is the only way to live life completely.

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  Hurt, Live Life, Deep Love

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• To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

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  Love You, Love Yourself, Giving

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• I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

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  Running, Children, Creativity

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• Happiness and love are just a choice away.

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  Attitude, Love You, Choices

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• ...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

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  Relationship, Hate, Love Is

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

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  Joyful, Tension, Feels

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• If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

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  Love, Inspiring, Compassion

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

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  Love, Passion, Essence

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• A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.

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  Love, Husband, Drinking

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• We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.

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  Common Humanity, Forgiving, Together

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• We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

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  Inspirational Love, Return

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• To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

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  Love You, Depth, Different

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1972). “Love”, Fawcett

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• 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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  Life, Heart, Differences

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.

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  Children, Pain, Garden

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• After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

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  Moving, Past, Done

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• Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

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  Education, Helping, Process

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• 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.

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  Garden, Thinking, Eggplant

  Leo F. Buscaglia (1992). “Papa, my father: a celebration of dads”, Ballantine Books

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• 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.

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  Art, Cooking Classes, Wife

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• If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

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  Freedom, Responsibility, Wish

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• We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

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  Born, Dies, Ifs

  "Leo Buscaglia - An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

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  Food, Miracle, Cooking

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• The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

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  Powerful, Play, Missing

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• To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

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  Dream, Ideas, Risk

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• To love is to risk not being loved in return.

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  Life, Love Is, Deep Love

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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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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  Unique, Joy, Done

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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