Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
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Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Leo Buscaglia Quotes on Risk

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia Best Love Sayings

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
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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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Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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A single rose can be my garden - a single friend, my world.
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Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
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Risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret.
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When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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