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Zitat des Tages von Leo Buscaglia:

Change is the end result of all true learning.

I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.

Leo Buscaglia

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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We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

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

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If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

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

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Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

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

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

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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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If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

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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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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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Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

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

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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.

Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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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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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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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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We all need each other.

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

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Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

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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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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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I got the copyright for love!

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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've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

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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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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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