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

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

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.

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

Man created words to free himself

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,
but it is the only way to live life completely.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Listening is love in action.

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

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

Loving means sharing joy with people.

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

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

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

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

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

Love is always open arms.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

To love others you must love yourself ... You can only give to others what you have yourself.

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

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

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

To that there is an answer.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter.

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

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ...

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

A life lived in love will never be dull.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

What do years have to do with age?

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

We all need each other.

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

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

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

This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

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

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

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

Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes ...

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..

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

To love others you must first love yourself.

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

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

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

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

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

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.