Living, Loving & Learning Book

I generally hate self-help/inspirational type books, however this book holds a soft spot in my heart.

Living Loving and Learning is a collection of Leo Buscaglia's lectures and is replete with anecdotal interactions from students, readers, and friends. Buscaglia's message is inspired from everyday events that we often fail to notice. He points out most people take too many things for granted and become misguided by fame, authority, or money. They forget the real meaning of living and loving. Buscaglia says that we have an obligation to become all we can be; that we can't give what we don't possess, therefore in order to give ourselves, we need to cultivate what we have to offer. He also teaches us that everything we do must be done with love and that our actions impact those around us.

Buscaglia teaches that it is one thing to have achievements and successes in life, yet it is another thing to live the way humans were meant to live - through the senses, through relationships, and through perpetual self-improvement. And the most wonderful message I took from this book is that acts of love can not only build bridges between people, and change people's day but can also change people's life.