Leo Buscaglia Quotes

• Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.

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• Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

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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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• If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

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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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• 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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• Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

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• Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.

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• 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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• Change is the end result of all true learning.

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• 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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  Topics in Nature

• 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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  Topics in Love

• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

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  Topics in Expectations, Ideals

•  A life lived in love will never be dull.

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  Topics in Life, Love

  Tags in Boredom

• 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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  Topics in Knowledge, Spirituality

  Tags in Sharing

Leo Buscaglia (35)

Birth:	31st March, 1924
Death:	12th June, 1998
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Professor

About

Felice Leonardo Buscaglia spent his early childhood in Aosta, Italy, before going back to the United States for education. He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School. After Navy service in World War II, Buscaglia entered the University of Southern California, where he earned three degrees. before eventually joining the faculty. Upon retirement, Buscaglia was named Professor at Large, one of only two such designations on campus at that time.

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