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Change is the end result of all true learning.

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Change, Result, End Result, Education

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

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Hate, Gentleness, Simplistic, Sophisticated

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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Love, Life, Love You, Miss

You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.

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Love, Follower, Always, Whomever

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.

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Smile, Listening, Which, Ear

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.

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Want, Other, Easiest Thing, Most Difficult Thing

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

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Purpose, Own, Least, Hurt

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

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Spoke, Later, Anybody, Homemade

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

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Future, Destiny, Maybe, Behaving

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

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Food, People, Cook, Missing

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.

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Inspirational, Fact, Receive, Flower

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

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Love, Gift, Always, Love Is

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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Love, Will, Always, Love Is

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

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Love, Strong, Very, Love Is

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

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Freedom, Wish, Entails, Enslavement

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

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Friendship, World, Single, Garden

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

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Down, Other, Around, Gently

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.

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Love, Reach, Jerk, Sentimental

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

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Good, Minds, Our, Satisfying

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

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Like, Made, Looked, Arm

Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.

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More, Feel, HUGS, Psychologically

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

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Powerful, Puppets, Longer, Powerful Force

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.

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Learning, Death, Other, Every Time

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

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Nature, Little Things, Play, Wind

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

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Love, About, Learned, Table

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.

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Learning, Play, Paradoxical, Differentiate

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

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Relationship, Grow, Other, Shade

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

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Think, I Think, Am, Enjoying Life

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

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Love, Never, Always, Love Always

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.

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My Life, Salvation, Been, All My Life

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