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Leo Buscaglia
American
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About the author
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Today
#Sorrow
#Worry
#Tomorrow
#Joy
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Life
#Love
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Will
#Expectations
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Want
#People
#World
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Smile
#Knowledge
#Spiritual
#Fact
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Life
#Smile
#Power
#Act
#Word
#Listening
#Potential
#Caring
#Compliment
We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Being
#Force
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Love
#Will
#Open
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Life
#Happiness
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#God
#Talent
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Living
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Love
#Will
#Eternity
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Time
#Right
#Now
#Love
#Death
#Challenge
#Waste
Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#End
#Result
#Change
#Learning
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#World
#Friend
#Garden
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Love
#Expectation
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Want
#People
#Control
#Change
#Destiny
#Lonely
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Love
#Feeling
#Hate
#Giving
#Apathy
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Play
#Wind
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#People
#Support
#Thought
#Light
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Love
#Man
#Promise
#Lie
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Freedom
#Responsibility
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.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Time
#Play
#Parents
#Learning
#Connection
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Life
#Will
#Day
#Being
#Tomorrow
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia,
American
Author
#Ignorance
#Wisdom