Random Quotes from the teacher Leo Buscaglia
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
The easiest thing in the world is to be you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
This loving person is a person who abhors waste--waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
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.
One does not fall 'in' or 'out' of love. One grows in love.
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
Some Yummies from the teacher Leo Buscaglia
