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I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.


Leo Buscaglia

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LEO TOLSTOY I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of ...
LEO TOLSTOY Anything is better than lies and deceit!
LEO TOLSTOY Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to u...
LEO TOLSTOY If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.
LEO TOLSTOY Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.
LEO TOLSTOY I think... if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are...
LEO TOLSTOY It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and wil...
LEO TOLSTOY Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
LEO TOLSTOY It's hard to love a woman and do anything.
LEO TOLSTOY She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here...
LEO TOLSTOY A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he parti...
LEO TOLSTOY We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
LEO TOLSTOY Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity...
LEO TOLSTOY O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath...
LEO ROSTEN A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is e...
LEO TOLSTOY In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
LEO TOLSTOY Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
LEO TOLSTOY I simply want to live; to cause no evil to anyone but myself.
LEO TOLSTOY Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be.
LEO TOLSTOY Instead of focusing on how much you can accomplish, focus on how much you can absolutely love what y...
LEO BABAUTA To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.
LEO BURNETT