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've always though 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.
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We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
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I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!
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Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.
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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.
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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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We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.
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Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.
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Loving means sharing joy with people.
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The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.
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People are not here to meet your expectations.
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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.
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My rule is always, People first and things second.