"What we call the secret of happiness..." - Quote by Leo Buscaglia
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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“I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!”
“The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.”
“It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!”
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“If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.”
“To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich.”
“They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I am simpleminded. Maybe that’s the key: simple.”
More on Choice
“Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold”
“There is a doctrine whispered in secret that a man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door and run away; this is a great mystery which I do not quite understand.”
“Difficult is a far cry from impossible. The distance between these two lies hope. Hope and fear cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Invite one to stay.”