Leo Buscaglia

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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.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
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.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Change is the end result of all true learning.
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.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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.
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.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

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