Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
…the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must “feel” something … or they couldn’t possibly hate. Therefore, there’s some way in which I can get to them.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.
You are the only you … You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
Definition of a relationship – an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.” -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate — it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying more refreshing more valuable more appreciated and more intoxicating!
When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
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 a smile in return are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved we love to love.
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 a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn.
Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
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.
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.
If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.