Leo Buscaglia Quotes

• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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  Topics in Life, Risk

• Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

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  Topics in Anger, Love

  Tags in Energy, Hurt

• Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

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  Topics in Inspirational

• Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

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  Topics in Inspirational, Love

• You are the only you … You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Topics in Life, Love

• Love yourself accept yourself forgive yourself and be good to yourself because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

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  Topics in Love

  Tags in Wonderful, Forgive, Accept

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

  Leo Buscaglia

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

  Leo Buscaglia

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

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• We all need each other.

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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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  Topics in Inspirational

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Expected, Strong

• 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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  Topics in Love

• 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.

  Leo Buscaglia

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

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Responsibility, Freedom

• 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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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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