Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia PhD, 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1924
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
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I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.
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My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.
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Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.
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I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
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All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
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The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
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If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.
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The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.
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The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
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The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.
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The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
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I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.