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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.

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.

Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern

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Leo Buscaglia
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Approximate author period: c. 1961 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1924 to 1998; Wikidata Q2535504, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2535504 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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