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This book is about love. What it is and what it isn't. It is about you--and about everybody who has ever reached out to touch the heart of another. Among many other lessons of the heart, Leo Buscaglia reminds us: Love is open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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I was in love with someone I considered so special to my life, I never thought I could have loved someone so much ever, but she destroyed me by her ways that she lived by. Unfortuately this woman could not fully understand what love was all about. I will never forget the way she could speak of her past relationships, the way she treated them, and then of course it happend to me. Love.. This woman has no idea what the word means. Why I have kept asking myself, all my life I had wanted a love like a dream instead it turned into a nightmare. This book helped me to feel and know that love is still there in people. I may not ever find love like that again. I think this book helped me to understand that people do love each other differently, but I do wonder when you find someone who has loved many times before if they truely know the true depth of love or is it just surface love. This book showed me that love is such a wonderful thing to have in ones life. This book will be special to anyone who wants to feel the art of loving. Unfortunatly this woman hadn’t a clue of how to be there for someone else other than herself. Thankfully I am now getting my life back together, falling in love and being in love the way I felt for this woman was such an incredible feeling I had. I hope she is at peace herself with what she did to me during our relationship, I know she always thinks she was so correct and right but for all of that her ways destroyed a wonderful love affair. I read she now has someone else in her life, I only hope she has learnt how to be there for him this time as part of LOVING someone and I really hope for her sake she can make this one work as I truley tried more than most to make it work.
Rating: 5 / 5
Love: What Life Is All About
Everything Leo writes is wonderful. His videos are amazing. To see him in action is life-changing. Is he still alive? I have been trying to find out for years because you never hear of him lately. If he is gone, I’m sure he is in heaven because he truly was an angel among us.
Rating: 5 / 5
Love: What Life Is All About
This is sweet and simple in what it set out to do. Answers are attempted throughout but never finalized because love is never finalized.
BIG IDEA: Love is being ultimately present with the person or thing and growing together for the sake of growth.
OTHER IDEA: Education should be a 3 part process to help an individual:
1) discover their uniqueness
2) harness and grow their uniqueness
3) share their uniqueness
till next time…Tom
Rating: 5 / 5
Love: What Life Is All About
In writing this review, I have been sometimes challenged to harken back to the pure strengths of this book in specifics. I have scribbled notes to myself in the margins, noted great quotes within, and yet I think the best way to really grasp the gloriousness of this book is to simply get your hands on it and read it yourself. I know I will be re-reading it, re-reading it and re-reading it.
It is the sort of book you can pick up and open in any section and find something valuable whether it is a story or an example or a simple application.
“Love” has been a tremendously successful book – indeed, Buscaglia had 5 books on the New York Times best seller list at once – people (even those who found him “odd”) craved what he taught. Those lessons come through loud and clear in this relatively compact treatise which was inspired from the lectures and student contact from the course he taught at a California (naturally, perhaps some of you are thinking) University.
Each chapter offers the reader the opportunity to plunge headlong into the topic of love: we come to know that love is a learned phenomenon, that there are strong forces which keep us from experiencing – and giving and receiving love. We discover the importance of loving ourselves and how to begin to activate that process.
I found the most effective chapter to be “Love Recognizes Needs” because it shares examples of the ways in which we can simply, easily and (dare I say it?) even methodically become more aware and give love more readily to others AND receive love more readily for ourselves.
I wish I had known of Leo Buscaglia when he was still living. His message is simple and profound, it is grace-filled and warm – and in his writing and life he seems to have been capable of living without concern about what “mainstream thinkers” thought of him.
On page 89, Buscaglia quotes Thornton Wilder – and this quote really says all that needs to be said about reading and applying the lessons from this book:
“There is a land of the living and a land of the dead. The bridge is love.”
Rating: 5 / 5
Love: What Life Is All About
“If he desired to know about automobiles, he would, without question, study diligently about automobiles. If his wife desired to be a gourmet cook, she’d certainly study the art of cooking, perhaps even attending a cooking class. Yet, it never seems as obvious to him that if he wants to live in love, he must spend at least as much time as the auto mechanic or the gourmet in studying love.” ~ Leo Buscaglia from “Love”
I smile as I type these words–just having Buscaglia’s book, “Love,” open in front of me is enough to make me happy. :)
Seriously. This is hands down one of my favorite books. I’ve purchased at least 250 copies of it. We used to give it away to all of our partners at my last business [...] and I used to bring a copy with me to nearly every business lunch I had. (I’m a little wacky like that. :)
I have no doubt you’ll fall in Love with “Love” as well. By the end of reading it, you’ll wish you could give Leo Buscaglia–a former Professor of Love at USC–a big ol’ hug.
Rating: 5 / 5
Love: What Life Is All About