"The more I think about it,
the more I realize
there is nothing
more artistic than to
love others."
V. Van Gogh

"If I don't have wisdom, 
I can teach you only ignorance." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Don't smother each other. 
No one can grow in the shade." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Don't brood. 
Get on with living and loving. 
You don't have forever." 
L. Buscaglia

"The land changed man
long before
man changed the land."
E. S. Maggin

"A single rose can be my garden... 
a single friend, my world." 
L. Buscaglia 

"Death is a challenge. 
It tells us not to waste time... 
It tells us to tell each other 
right now that 
we love each other." 
L. Buscaglia 

"No man is an island of itself.
Each is a piece of the continent -
a part of the main."
J. Donne

"- a part, yet a part."
L. Buscaglia

"We are a community of person
and a world of things."
L. Buscaglia

"Life is selected over death,
Wisdom over ignorance,
pain over apathy and
joy over dispair."

"We cannot stop a hurricane,
silence a storm or keep a
loved one from leaving us.
But it is our response and reaction
to these catastrophic experiences
that will determine whether
we will continue to survive and
grow towards becoming a
fully functioning person."
L. Buscaglia

"The greater the number of imaginative and
creative alternatives to behavior we possess,
the more meaningful the choice,
the more self determined the action."
L. Buscaglia

"We must affirm ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"We must have no desire
to control, possess or dominate
nor allow others to do so to us."
L. Buscaglia

"We have all we need to
become what we are,
our perfect selves.
All we need to do to realize it is to
recognize it, develop it and live it in action."
L. Buscaglia

" Love is not what you are
but only what you may become."
M. Cervantes

"Anonymous is one of
the world's best and worst
teachers of life and truth.
I quote him/her often."
M. Alibrando

"Remember, an idea you reject today,
may become one you learn to except later.
Also, ideas you except today,
may become ones you reject later."
M. Alibrando

"Included in a book written by Richard Bach
is a line that says,
'Everything in this book may be wrong.'
I sometimes wonder if these words,
or similar words,
should not have been included
very near the beginning of this
collection of thoughts.
Well, as they say,
better late than never."
M. Alibrando

"Every idea listed on these pages may not be suited to you.
Seek thoughts and ideas that work for you."
M. Alibrando

"To be fully active and fully functioning as a person,
we must make death a lifelong friend."
L. Buscaglia

"Death is the greatest of life's teachers."
L. Buscaglia

"When we can embrace death as
simply another aspect of the life cycle,
we will give appreciation and value to
each life encounter knowing that
it will never occur again."
L. Buscaglia

"You have a lot to teach yourself,
so keep track and
write down you own wisdom
whenever it comes bubbling up."
M. Alibrando

"The less we are attached to
the less we have to worry about."
L. Buscaglia

"Death teaches us that
in the long run
nothing belongs to us."
L. Buscaglia

"Time is relative.
It is ours,
given freely to spend wisely
or to squander idly,
but never to be hoarded."
L. Buscaglia

"Every day is new.
Every moment is fresh.
Time has no meaning in itself
unless we choose to
give it significance."
L. Buscaglia

"Armed with strength and choice
we are ready to look at some ways
in which we might better
become the orchestrators of our lives
and live each day as fully active
and functioning persons."
L. Buscaglia

"...we must seriously decide
to start on our way and
to stay on our path."
L. Buscaglia

"Death has no secrets."
L. Buscaglia

"He who isn't busy being born is busy dying"
R. Zimmerman 

"Perhaps the fact of life most conducive 
to living fully as a person is an honest 
awareness and acceptance of death." 
L, Buscaglia

"All truth is platitude and
all platitude is truth."
G. Vidal

"The tragedy is that it takes us a lifetime to learn this."
L. Buscaglia