Top 100 Buscaglia Quotes
#1. Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth. Leo Buscaglia
Robert Holden
#2. Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
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#3. Booker T. Washington, Buddha, John Dewey, Leo Buscaglia, Moses and Jesus.
Jack Canfield
#4. 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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#5. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
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#6. Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
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#7. Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!
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#8. If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
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#10. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
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#11. A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
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#12. Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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#13. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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#14. Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.
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#15. There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.
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#16. You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
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#18. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!
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#19. The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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#20. I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.
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#22. The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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#23. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things ... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
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#24. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
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#25. 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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#26. Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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#28. The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."
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#29. As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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#30. Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
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#31. 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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#32. The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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#33. If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
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#34. Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
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#35. 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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#36. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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#37. It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.
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#38. Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.
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#39. The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
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#40. 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.
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#41. 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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#42. To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
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#43. Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.
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#44. Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ...
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#45. We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
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#48. He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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#49. Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
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#50. The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.
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#51. 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.
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#52. We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
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#53. We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
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#54. In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane
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#55. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..
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#56. When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.
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#57. My rule is always, People first and things second.
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#58. We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
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#61. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
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#63. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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#64. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
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#65. Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
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#66. When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
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#67. If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.
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#68. Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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#69. He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.
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#70. 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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#71. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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#72. I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
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#73. Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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#74. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love
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#75. I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
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#76. We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'
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#77. The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
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#78. I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!
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#79. In love, each man is his own personal challenge.
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#81. As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.
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#82. Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life.
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#83. Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
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#84. Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours ... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.
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#85. One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
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#86. If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.
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#88. The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
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#89. Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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#90. The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
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#91. You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
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#92. When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.
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#93. Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
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#94. 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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#95. A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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#96. Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy ... Why not choose joy? ... Why not live in joy?
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#97. Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".
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#98. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.
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#99. It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.
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