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Love

by Leo F. Buscaglia · 1972

Vintage paperback

11 quotes ★ 4.25 (3,843) Nonfiction

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To love others you must first love yourself.
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In the end you have only you.
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We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.
39
A life lived in love will never be dull.
18
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
12
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
10
Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
10
Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state
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Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.
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You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
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There was a rabbit, a bird, a squirrel, a fish and an eel, and they formed a Board of Education. The rabbit insisted that running be in the curriculum. The bird insisted that flying be in the curriculum. The fish insisted that swimming be in the curriculum, and the squirrel insisted that perpendicular tree climbing be in the curriculum. They put all of these things together and wrote a Curriculum Guide. Then they insisted that all of the animals take all of the subjects. Although the rabbit was getting an A in running, perpendicular tree climbing was a real problem for him; he kept falling over backwards. Pretty soon he got to be sort of brain damaged, and he couldn’t run any more. He found that instead of making an A in running, he was making a C and, of course, he always made an F in perpendicular climbing. The bird was really beautiful at flying, but when it came to burrowing in the ground, he couldn’t do so well. He kept breaking his beak and wings. Pretty soon he was making a C in flying as well as an F in burrowing, and he had a hellava time with perpendicular tree climbing. The moral of the story is that the person who was valedictorian of the class was a mentally retarded eel who did everything in a half-way fashion.
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Vintage paperback

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First published
1972
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