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" Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. "

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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. "

" What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. "

" The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. "

" 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. "

" I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. "

" Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. "

" What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Change is the end result of all true learning. "

" I got the copyright for love! "

" 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. "

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

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

" My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. "

" I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. "

" 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. "