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" 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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" 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. "

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

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

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Family

" When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. "

" I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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Pay

People

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

" The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal. "

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

" If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. "

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

" 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. "

" Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. "

" I got the copyright for love! "

Leo Buscaglia

Love

Got

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

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

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

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

" 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. "

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

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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 open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. "