Each day, I promise myself not to try to solve all my life problems at once -- nor shall I expect you to do so;
Starting each day, I shall try to learn something new about me and about you and about the world I live in, so that I may continue to experience all things as if they had been newly born;
Starting each day, I shall remember to communicate my joy as well as my despair, so that we can know each other better;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself to really listen to you and to try to hear your point of view and to discover the least-threatening way of giving you mine, remembering that we are both growing and changing in a hundred different ways;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself that I am a human being and not demand perfection of you until I am perfect, so you're safe;
Starting each day, I shall try to be more aware of the beautiful things in our world -- I'll look at the flowers, I'll look at the birds, I'll look at the children, I'll feel the cool breezes, I'll eat good food -- and I'll share these things with you;
Starting each day, I shall remind myself to reach out and touch you, gently, with my words, my eyes and with my fingers, because I don't want to miss feeling you;
Starting each day, I shall dedicate myself again to the process of being a lover -- and then see what happens;
You know, I'm really convinced that if you were to define love, the only word big enough to engulf it all would be "Life" -- LOVE IS LIFE -- in all its aspects ... And if you miss love, you miss life !Please don't !
Quotes from "Born for Love", By Dr. Leo Buscaglia:
Separateness is an illusion.
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
Any action that inhibits is not love. Love is only love when it liberates.
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.
It is only when we have experienced love that we truly realize what would be lost by missing it.
Love is constant, it is we who are fickle. Love does guarantee, people betray. Love can always be trusted, people cannot.
All the things that "go without saying" or that are "understood" between two people in love can build up a mountain of miscommunication.
It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the secret of human love is revealed to us.
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.
Risks
"To laugh is to risk appearing the fool,
To weep is to risk being called sentimental.
To reach out to another is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings is to risk showing your true self.
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd
is to risk being called naive.
To love is to risk not being loved in return.
To live is to risk dying.
To hope is to risk despair,
To try is to risk failure.
But risks must be taken, because the greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love.
Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free."
Leo often quoted this in his books and lectures, and for quite some time its author was listed as "anonymous". Several years ago, the author of this inspirational verse stepped forward.
She is ..... Janet Rand
Other quotes by 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.
"Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!"
Love creates an "us", without destroying a "me".
Love is like a mirror. when you love another, you become his mirror and he becomes yours... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
Love can only be given, expressed freely. It can't be captured or held, for it is neither there to tie nor to hold.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
To learn to love is to be in constant change. The process is endless, for man's potential to love is infinite.
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction, and despair.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Approach everyone you meet as an individual with dignity and a life as complicated and mysterious as your own. Discard preconceptions and suspend, even for a moment, the idea that you "know this type". Do these things and perhaps you might learn the most important lesson that love can teach us: that each person is worthy of our love simply because they are human, and begin from there.
The essence of education is not to stuff you full of facts, but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then show you how to give it away.
Every time we put our hand out to someone, we run the risk of being slapped. But you also get a chance of somebody reaching out and touching you in love.
Value every moment as if it really is your last because it might very well be.