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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.

— Leo Buscaglia LOVE (1972)

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A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

A Magazine of People and Possibilities interview (1998)

People are not here to meet your expectations.

Living, Loving, and Learning (1982)

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Born For Love (1994)

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

Speaking Of Love (1980)

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

LOVE (1972)

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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke A Letter to a Member of the National Assembly (1791)

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

Abraham Cowley Poems (1656)

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