"Living, Loving & Learning" by Leo Buscaglia

"What a shame if all you believe exists is what can be shown statistically. I feel very sorry for you indeed if you are ruled only by what you can measure, because I'm intrigued by the unmeasurable. I'm intrigued by the dreams, not only by what is here. I don't give a damn what is here. I can see it. That's fine, measure it if you want to spend your life measuring it, but I am concerned with what is out there. There is so much that we don't see, we don't touch, we don't feel, we don't understand.
We assume that reality is the box we've been put in, and it's not, I assure you. Open the door sometime and look outside and see how much there is. The dream of today will be the reality of tomorrow. Yet, we've forgotten how to dream."
-- pg. 8 --

"First of all, I believe that probably the most important thing is that this loving person is a person who loves himself. ... I'm not talking about the ego trip. ... I'm talking about a person who loves himself as being someone who realizes that you can only give away what you have, and so you damned well better work at getting something. You want to be the most educated, the most brilliant, the most exciting, the most versatile, the most creative individual in the world, because then you can give it away; and the only reason you have anything is to give it away."
-- pg. 10 --

"Two thirds of the world is not the Western World. These people think differently, and feel differently, and understand differently, and you learn a lot about yourself and about the human condition when you get out of our Western environment and find out that there are people and areas where even Jesus is unknown. There are places that have no idea what our Western culture is thinking about, doing, feeling; and yet these are the people that we're meeting head on in conflict. their words are not our words. Their feelings are not our feelings. But nevertheless, I learned a lot by traveling these countries."
-- pg. 16--

Buscaglia, Leo. Living, Loving & Learning. Fawcett Columbine: New York. 1982.
ISBN 449-90024-X