"The supreme art of war is to
subdue the enemy without fighting."
Sunzi

"Shop for security over happiness
and you will buy it at that price."
R. Bach

"Our goal is worth the struggle,
for in this case, the star to which
we aspire is full humanity for all."
L. Buscaglia

"Life and living are arts to be celebrated."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"...the greatest tragedy in life is
the fact that most human being
die before they are fully born."
E. Fromm

"Life is always ready
and open at our side
to share it's resources.
It simply awaits our embrace."
L. Buscaglia

"Our lives are original documents
which we alone can create."
L. Buscaglia

"Either we create them
or they will never exist."
L. Buscaglia

"...exist in life..."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"Our talents are the gift that God gives to us...
What we make of our talents is our gift back to God."
L. Buscaglia

"Each of us still has it within us
that which is necessary to
remake the world."
L. Buscaglia

"We want to participate
in the process of creating
a more prefect now."
L. Buscaglia

"All things considered,
we are not too bad."
L. Buscaglia

"We have a rightful place on this Earth and in this universe."
L. Buscaglia

"And even if this life I
am living is an illusion,
as they assure me it is,
at least it is an exciting illusion
and one of my own making."
L. Buscaglia

"I like being a human being.
Even with all of my frailties,
abilities to hurt, forget,
cause conflicts,
know pain and feel fear,
I am delighted with life."
L. Buscaglia

"Be delighted with life and
let life be delighted with you."
M. Alibrando

"...we are a mass of joyful contradictions,
complexities, imperfection, incertitudes,
and magic."
L. Buscaglia

"If you have peace within yourself,
others will see it and want peace
for themselves."
M. Alibrando

"Ideas come easily,
result take time."
M. Alibrando

"Is going to the store to buy eggs and milk an epic adventure
or are epic adventures for you a walk in the park?"
M. Alibrando

"Perfection suggest an ultimate state,
a completion, a termination.
The fully functioning human person
does not seek this, even in death."
L. Buscaglia

"Fully funtioning persons know that it
[love] must be mainly self-taught,
and it [love] is best learned through
simply being vulnerable to love
and by living in it as dedicated
human lovers each day of our lives."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy requires compassion."

"...when we have knowledge of our own
personal conflicts and feeling based upon
general human experiences, we can begin
to understand how others may feel.
It is this point at which compassion begins."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy have no place for explotation.
There is an old statement, but it is still true,
use things, love people."

"Exploitation, in a relationship,
no matter how we rationalize it,
can never be love."
L. Buscaglia

"One never tires of knowing loved expressed."

"...a word, a note, a flower, a simple poem,
can bring the much needed
message of assurance."
L. Buscaglia

"For a moment the shared experience
has taken two and made them one."
L. Buscaglia

"Real love and intimacy
grow best in spontaneity
and offer an abundance of
opportunities for experiences
of joy, beauty and laughter."
L. Buscaglia

"The only valid expectaion in love lies in the
hope that those we love will become themselves,
as we do the same."
L. Buscaglia

"Mature intimacy and love are not based upon expectations."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is not nurtured or enhanced by looking back,
it is always lived in the now."
L. Buscaglia

"...be constantly aware and open to change."
L. Buscaglia

"We begin with separate Is.
We set up shared space between the two Is and call it us.
It is this space where intimacy grows.
The greater the shared experience, the more the area of us."
L. Buscaglia

"Love and intimacy
are challenged,
not threatened
by differences."
L. Buscaglia

"...intimacy brings people together
but it is each person's responsibility
to maintain autonomy..."

"...you must grow separately
in order to
continue to grow with others."
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia