Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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Leo Buscaglia

Profession : Author

Birth : March 31, 1924

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.

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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 is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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We all need each other.

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All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

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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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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

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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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A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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

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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

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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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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

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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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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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Change is the end result of all true learning.

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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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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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

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