But the highest level at which we’re able to interact and have a relationship is what I am talking about today, and that is real intimacy. That is where we give and receive without exploitation. “I don’t want to use you, I want to love you. I want to experience you. I want to know you. I want to smell you. I want to feel you. I want to grow with you. I want to dance with you, cry with you. I want to caress you.” But as I said, it’s going to take all the energies you have.
Dr. Leo Buscaglia was a U.S.C. professor who decided to teach a class about love — about how each person can live a life of love and joy. It’s a decision, he would say. In the 1980s, he was one of PBS’s most popular lecturer and was soon selling millions of copies of his first book, “Love” and a number of subsequent books. I was lucky enough to interview him in 1981 and ask him the kinds of questions his followers, and critics maybe, wished that they could ask him. Shortly after this interview, Buscaglia went into the hospital for multiple bypass surgery. In 1992, he died of a heart attack.
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.
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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.
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Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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.
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. 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.
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
I love (Felice) Leo Buscaglia! :[
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