"...recognize your need for others."
L. Buscaglia

we are so both and oneful
night cannot be so sky
sky cannot be so sunful
i am through you so i
e e cummings

"Say old ideas in new ways."
M. Alibrando

"When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves."

"...pain cannot be wished out of existence."

"...learn from it..."

"...forgive and let it go forever."
L.Buscaglia

"Keep trying."
M. Alibrando

"Pain is a very human way
of demanding change."
L. Buscaglia

"...choices are ours to make."
L. Buscaglia

"No one and nothing can depress us or
cause us pain if we choose not to have it so."
L. Buscaglia

"In a very real sense,
we are directly responsible
for our own pain."
L. Buscaglia

"It is not others and other things
which cause our unhappiness.
It is we ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"...emotional pain is largely self made.
It does not arise as often as we presume.
L. Buscaglia

"Accept emotional pain as an inevitable reality of life."

"Take it as an indispensable stimulus for change."

"Understand that pain need not only mean discomfort
but can also be utilized as a positive in humanness."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...know that it is magic that give life it's spice,
eradicates boredom, and elevates existence."
L. Buscaglia

"Know rapture from an orange
and ecstasy from a blade of grass."

"Reach out with total trust and
touch the God of all things."
L. Buscaglia

"It is the strength and fearlessness
to allow ourselves to
transcend reality and ourselves."
L. Buscaglia

"Spirituality involves an awareness of all there is
and an openness to what is not."
L. Buscaglia

"The spirit or each person and things is present
even if we are too asleep to experience it,
even if we deny its existence."
L. Buscaglia

"Magic is not the sole prerogative of the sorcerer.
We are ourselves magicians with the power to
conjure up and melt away at will.
We create the mystery of each day -
the secrets lie under every tree,
in every insect,
in each thought."

"Flowers will bloom whether we care or not.
All food will have distinctive flavors
even if we don't bother to chew or taste them.
There will be blazing sunrises
even if we never rise early enough to see one."
L. Buscaglia

"Sometimes the right question
offers more answers
than the right answer."
M. Alibrando

"The biggest reason
you don't get answers
is that you haven't
asked the questions."
R. Bach

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower,
share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's,
smile at someone and receive one in return,
are, to me, continual spiritual exercises."
L.Buscaglia

"We can predict tides almost to the second -
We can date and time the migration of birds and whales.
We can walk on the moon.
But does this lessen the wonder of the sea,
the magic of the birds or
the beauty of the planets?"
L. Buscaglia

"Because something can be explained
need not affect it's wonder."
L. Buscaglia

"It is like the Zen Koan which states that
there is no difference if we think we are
the monk dreaming we are a butterfly
or a butterfly dreaming we are a monk
dreaming we are a butterfly."
L. Buscaglia

"We can either accept in faith or select nothingness.
Both engage in mystery."

"Either we slect to believe that
everything matters or nothing matters -
yet, in essence, both are the same."

"Both will involve mind games,
for neither offer definitive proofs.
This does not mean that answers do not exist."
L. Buscaglia

"Life offers us few explanations.
We cannot be certain of the true meaning of life,
the source of life,
nor life after life.
Only we can fill the void which this certitude creates."
L. Buscaglia

"A human being is a deciding being."
V. Frankl

"Without continual growth and progress,
such words as improvement, achievement,
and success have no meaning."
B. Franklin

"Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."
M. Gandhi

"If you judge people
you have no time to
love them."
A. Bojaxhiu

"Being Deeply loved by someone gives you strength,
while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
Laozi

"The most important thing in life to learn is
how to give out love and to let it come in."
M. Schwartz

"The common tendency to confuse love with the feeling of love allows people all manner of self-deception."

"It may be difficult and  painful to search for evidence of love in one's action."

"...true love is an act of will that often trancends ephemeral feelings of love."
M. S. Peck

"Love is as love does."
M. S. Peck