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Leo Buscaglia Biography

Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia PhD (March 31, 1924 – June 12, 1998), also known as "Dr. Love," was an American author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

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We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

Alone, Develop, Life, Like, Love, Motivational

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

Joyful, Tension, Feels, Life, Daily, Tensions

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

Lasting, Positive, Positive Change, Suffering, Trauma

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

Distance, Self, Overcoming, Requires, Overcome, Place

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.

Believe, Believes, Love, Love You, Running, Suffering

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

Lover, Lovers, Saying, Saying Yes, Wish, Wishes

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

Instead, Mistake, Rubbing It, Tact

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

Force, Literature, Manipulated, Powerful, Puppets

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

Day, Happens, Nutty, Occasionally

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.

Flower, Happiness, Positive, Receive, Share, Spiritual

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes. " Try "always. " Try "possible. " Try "hopeful. " Try "I will. " And try "I can. "

Despair, Hopeful, Joy, Pain, Say

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

Crazy, Insanity, World

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.

Know, Long, Mistake, Mistakes, Think, Thinking

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

Cooking, Deserving, Food, Garlic, Miracle, Miracles

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

Developed, Process, Quality, Start, Want, Work

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

Good, Healing, Health, Nothing, Satisfying, Tears

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

Life, Hurt, Mistake, Matter, Hands

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

Easily, Honesty, Live, Love, Romantic, Wonderfully

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Lies, Lying, Side, Sides, Success, Success And Failure

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Backdrop, Change, Lonely, Scene, Unhappy

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