'We need to discover ourselves."
M. Alibrando

"The word judicious means requiring judgment,
and judgment requires more than instinct;
it requires thoughtful and often painful decision making."
M. S. Peck

"When asked whether he believed in freewill,
twentith-centry novelist Isaac Bashevis Singer
replied, tongue-in-cheek, 'I have no choice.' "
T. Cathcart and D. Klein

"...Our use of the word love is so
unspecific as to severely interfere
with our understanding of love."
M. S. Peck

"...We shall want to maintian
the childhood thirst for
knowledge and exploration."
L. Buscaglia

"The parents role is primarily to
stand by with a goodly supply of bandages."
L. Buscaglia

"...living fully in each stage of life
is the real challenge."
L. Buscaglia

"...come to terms with our constantly growing selves
and our place in an ever-changing universe."
L. buscaglia

"Two people love each other
only when they are quite
capable of living without
each other but
choose to live with each other."
M. S. Peck

"...a good marriage
can exist only between two
strong and independent people."
M. S. Peck

"Where do we start?"
L. Buscaglia

"We start with ourselves!"
E. Wiesel

"We are the ones we've been waiting for!"
B. Obama

"When we are born,
we are almost all
unrealized potential,
and a thousand new possibilities
are present in each of us.
We can choose to be born
again at any time and
accept the challenge
of the selves we have yet to meet,
for the same is still true."
L. Buscaglia

"Only WE can accept the challenge of being our fully human selves.

Only WE can embrace ourselves and start a new.

Only WE can decide that we desire to live in full humanity."
L. Buscaglia

"When things are not done,
it is we who have not done them;
When there is misunderstanding,
it is also ours;
When we are in a state of emotional pain or tension,
it is we who have chosen the be there.

If we are not becoming all that we are,
it is we who are not changing,
and why we, therefore,
must suffer our own non-being."
L. Buscaglia

"No 'They' can teach or change us,
only we can do that.
No 'They' can bring us peace or joy:
These feelings are uniquely ours."
L. Buscaglia

"If we look carefully at behavior,
we usually discover that the emotional impotence,
apathy, and lack of understanding, and resistance to
change we see in others is really our own.

We are they.

We create our own private trap and are blind to the fact that it is of our own making."
L. Buscaglia

"We are not prisoners of the past.
We can start where we are.
we are enough."
L. Buscaglia

"There are no others to blame -
each of us is the other."
L. Buscaglia

"...each of us becomes a unique patterned unit
continually being regenerated as a part of
a constantly changing universe."
L. Buscaglia

"I am aware, therefore, I am."
M. Alibrando

"Your brain is the hardware of your soul."
D. Amen

"No one gets out of this world alive."
L. Buscaglia

"I learned that to take from
life was a privilege
and that to give my uniqueness
to life was my responsibility."
L. Buscaglia

"...the more I learn about people
and the world in which we live,
the more incapable I seem to be of
expressing to others what I have learned."
L. Buscaglia

"We are all
much less than
we can be."
L. Buscaglia

"..no one life is of more or less significance than another,
nor is any one of us more or less responsible,
for in each of us lies a vital part of the wholeness."
L. Buscaglia

"What is written may seem elementary ans repetitious.
L. Buscaglia

"He must not be foolish and recognize
only goodness even where evil exist.
He must know evil, hate and bigotry as
a real phenomena, but he must
see love as a greater force."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Poetry surrounds us everywhere,
but putting it on paper is, alas,
not so easy as looking at it."
Vincent Van Gogh

"To be open to love,
to trust and believe in love,
to be hopeful in love and live in love,
you need the greatest strength."
L. Buscaglia

"If you can find no love in the world
you can really only blame the fact that
you have left no room for love in you heart."
M. Alibrando

"He must have love securely in himself."
L. Buscaglia

"Vulnerability is always at the heart of love."
L. Buscaglia

"To live in love is life's greatest challenge."
L. Buscaglia

"Love recognizes
and appreciates
its own uniqueness."
L Buscaglia

"Love need no recognition,
for if its effect is recognizable,
it is not true love at all."
L Buscaglia

"Love is free and cannot
be realized unless it is left free."
L Buscaglia

"Love finds its own path,
sets its own pace and
travels its own way."
L Buscaglia

"...man must listen to his own drummer
or he will march right out of himself."
L Buscaglia

"He has his own path and
love encourages him
on his own way,
even if his path does not
intersect with our desired path."
L Buscaglia

"Love listens to it's own needs
and appreciate its own uniqueness."
L Buscaglia

"Love, then,  recognizes needs,
physical and emotional.
It sees as well as looks,
Listens as well as hears."
L Buscaglia