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Posted on Oct 24, 2008 under Dr. Love, Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, L, Leo Buscaglia, Love 1A, Motivational Speaker, Professor | 5 CommentsLeo Buscaglia’s Love Quotes and Sayings
1. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
2. Love is always bestowed as a gift — freely, willingly, and without expectation … We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
3. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
4. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
8. Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
9. Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
10. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
11. 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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Excerpt from Wikipedia: Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia, Ph.D. (31 March 1924 – 12 June 1998)…also known as “Dr Love”… was an author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. He was a graduate of Theodore Roosevelt High School (Los Angeles). After Navy service in World War II, Buscaglia entered the University of Southern California, where he earned three degrees before joining the faculty. Upon retirement, Buscaglia was named Professor at Large, one of only two such designations on campus at that time.
He gained fame on the USC campus through his non-credit course titled “Love 1A,” which became the basis for his first book, titled simply Love. His dynamic speaking style was discovered by the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and his televised lectures earned great popularity in the 1980s. At one point his talks, always shown during fund raising periods, were the top earners of all PBS programs. This national exposure, coupled with the heartfelt storytelling style of his books, helped make all of his titles national Best Sellers; five were once on the New York Times Best Sellers List simultaneously.
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Famous Sayings by Leo Buscaglia
1. A single rose can be my garden … a single friend, my world.
2. Change is the end result of all true learning.
3. Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
4. 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 this 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.
5. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
6. 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.
7. If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
8. If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
9. 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.
10. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
11. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
12. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
16. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
17. Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
