Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
• 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…
• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
• Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
• 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…
• Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
• I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
• Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
• What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
• Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
• Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
• Change is the end result of all true learning.
• 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…
• Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
• If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

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