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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

759 | Leo Buscaglia: “No One’s Too Big for a Hug.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Leo Buscaglia returns to the show today to remind you that you always have the ability to choose your own attitude and your actions. He also talks about the importance of taking risks in order to change and grow. Today’s clip comes from The Ultimate Leo Buscaglia Library, available from Audible.com and Nightingale.com.

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Yeah, today's QOD is no one's too big for a hug

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Here we go

0:31.0

Welcome back to the Court of the Day show I'm your host Sean Crox and a

0:35.6

Sean Crox and dot com we've got Leo Bouscal, Leo back on the show today and

0:41.0

today Leo is going to remind you that your attitude is a choice. Here's Leo.

0:52.0

You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can

0:57.6

select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select

1:03.4

you and you can select life and it's time that people tell you you're not at

1:09.8

the mercy of force is greater than yourself. You indeed are the greatest force for

1:15.2

you. Now you can't do it for me but you can do it for you. I was always amazed

1:21.3

at the work of Victor Franco. Many of you know it. A beautiful thing that he did

1:25.4

in man search for meaning. He said this the experiences of camp life he was

1:29.4

talking about being in a concentration camp. And if any man should have had

1:34.6

trouble living through this he should have he was a neurologist. He had grown

1:40.8

up in a very wealthy V&E's family. He had everything all of his life and all in

1:45.3

a sudden he was put in a situation where you think there aren't very many

1:48.2

viable alternatives. Listen to what he says. The experiences of camp life show

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that man does have a choice of action. There are enough examples often of a

1:57.9

heroic nature which prove that apathy can be overcome an irritability of the

2:04.1

worst kind suppressed. We who lived in concentration camps can remember those

2:09.5

who walk through the huts to comfort others giving away their last piece of

2:14.4

bread. They may have been few in number but they offered sufficient proof that

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