Gramps had a tape of this talk and encouraged Jo and I to listen to it. I'm not sure how old I was, maybe 10 or so. I remember being profoundly moved and listened several times over the next few years. I think this is the first personal development content I was ever exposed to.
Quotes I love
- Listening is love in action.
- Only the person who risks is truly free.
- Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.
- Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.
- To love others you must first love yourself.
- People are not here to meet your expectations.
- It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.
- Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
- Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life.
- A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing
- Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
- Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
- The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
- Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
- Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
- Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
- Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
- Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
- I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
- No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
- Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
- 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.
- Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
- 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.
- I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
- 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 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.
- Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
- 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.
- It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
- Leo Buscaglia quotes on Wisdom Trove
- Personal collection
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