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" I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. "

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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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" We all need 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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" 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. "

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

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

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