All Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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Friendship
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Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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Love
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Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
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Love
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Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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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I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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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.
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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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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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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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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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