posted December 03, 2011 04:27 PM            

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Leo Buscaglia

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo Buscaglia

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
Leo Buscaglia

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I must perhaps resign myself to having only stolen and brief tastes of happiness,
for it appears that I may never be invited to the feasts.
~LEXX

posted January 04, 2012 10:39 PM            

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Love isn’t an act, it’s a whole life. It’s staying with her now because she needs you; it’s knowing you and she will still care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures—when all that’s on the shelf and done with. Love—why, I’ll tell you what love is: it’s you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the other’s step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry, could mean a lifetime’s talk is over. ”
— Brian Moore, The Luck of Ginger Coffey

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posted February 18, 2012 11:41 PM            

Better to light a candle then to curse the darkness.

posted February 26, 2012 03:16 PM            

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Originally posted by T:
“People tend to live up (or down) to your expectations of them. ”

Have always liked that one. Not sure who said it..

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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
Leo Buscaglia

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posted February 27, 2012 01:15 AM            

Here are some other faves I read recently:

“If you expect nothing, you can never be disappointed.
Apart from a few starry-eyed poets or monks living on a mountaintop somewhere, however, we all have expectations. We not only have them, we need them. They fuel our dreams, our hopes, and our lives like some super-caffeinated energy drink.”
― Tonya Hurley, Homecoming

“That was the thing about the world: it wasn't that things were harder than you thought they were going to be, it was that they were hard in ways that you didn't expect.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“You don't seem mad at all,' she said.

But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular chemical. However, while I hope that the chemical gets rid of my chronic depression, I want to continue being mad, living life the way I dream it, and not the way other people want it to be. Do you know what exists out there, beyond the walls of Villete?”
― Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die

“We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.”
― Lev Grossman

posted February 27, 2012 01:17 AM            

"Are you a young lady?"

posted February 27, 2012 01:31 AM            

“Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.”
― Brenda Ueland, If You Want to Write: A Book about Art, Independence and Spirit

“I've always liked rooms where the party hasn't started yet...I love the feeling that anything could happen. After the party, when anything already has happened, there's usually the inevitable fact to face that anything wasn't all you'd hoped it to be.”
― Jillian Lauren, Some Girls: My Life in a Harem

posted February 27, 2012 04:21 PM            

Here's another one I liked from that list:

posted February 28, 2012 01:11 PM            

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.
~ Napolean Hill

We are all lying in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~ Oscar Wilde

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
~Benjamin Franklin

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known...
~Carl Sagan

War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
-Amos Bronson Alcott

Courage is the discovery that you may not win, but still trying when you know you can lose.
~ Tom Krause

Some, though seeing, do not see, though hearing do not hear or understand.
~ Angela Bertone

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
~ Henry David Thoreau

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.
~ Coco Chanel

There's only so much you can do but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
~ Charlize Theron

Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read.
~ Frank Zappa

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a thousand men with guns.
~ Mario Puzo

If ignorance is bliss - why are there so many unhappy people in the world!!?

Women always worry about things that men forget; men always worry about things women remember...
~ Albert Einstein

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday!

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~ Winston Churchill

Never feel guilty to sit a while and think.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not.
~ Albert Einstein

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know when to cry, know when to laugh, know when to be silent.
~ Mark Crow

If you can't respect a woman, you lose your right to talk to her....

Love is such a powerful thing. No distance, time, or consequence can break it down unless you really let it. Then, maybe you didn't love as hard as you could have...

Doing what you love is freedom - Loving what you do is happiness!

In life you need either inspiration or desperation.
~ Tony Robbins

No one can change a person , but a person could be the reason someone changes...
~ Dainara Datadin

When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you.
~ LaoTzu

Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings.
~ Miles Franklin

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
~ Sister Elizabeth Kenny

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends whom we choose.
~ Tehyi Hsieh

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. ~ Pablo Picasso

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
-Jascha Heifetz

‎"The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
Epictetus

The way you love is the way God will be with you.
Rumi

‎"He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty."
Lao-tzu

We build too many walls and not enough bridges. —
Sir Isaac Newton

The more we depart from nature, the closer to hell we get. —
Philip Arnold

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. —
Confucius

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. —
Hellen Keller

‎"The truth will speak for itself."
Mary Landrieu

‎"Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth"
Franklin D Roosevelt

For it is in giving that we receive. —
St. Francis of Assisi

You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again. —
Bonnie Prudden

We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. —
Sam Keen

It's a mistake to think that once you're done with school you need never learn anything new.
Sophia Loren

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. —
Confucius

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —
Oscar Wilde

Real love is when you become selfless and you are more concerned about your mate's or children's egos than your own. You're now a giver instead of a taker.
Sylvester Stallone

Ability may take you to the top but it takes character to keep you there. —
John Wooden

If you are a parent, open doors to unknown directions to the child so he can explore. Don't make him afraid of the unknown,give him support.
Osho

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.
Osho

Humanity refuses to live in harmony with nature and then blames God for its troubles. —
Philip Arnold

My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently
Osho

Creativity is the greatest rebellion in existence.
Osho

The less people know, the more stubbornly they know it.
Osho

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. —
Lao Tzu

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea. —
Swami Vivekananda

Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art.
Leonardo da Vinci

Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable.
Og Mandino

A closed mind is a noose around one's neck.
Philip Arnold

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.
Og Mandino

‎"Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
Goethe

‎"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
John Lennon

‎"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
Elbert Hubbard

‎"A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him." -
Brendan Francis

‎"A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life, to be thankful for a good one"
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

‎"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
Albert Einstein

‎"If life keeps asking you the same questions....You are NOT learning the lessons..."
Anon.

‎"Wherever you go, go with all your heart." -
Confucius