Leo Buscaglia famous quotes

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Motivational #Positive

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Death #Positivity

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Spiritual

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Inspiring #Positivity

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Forgiving #Wonderful

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Strong #Hate

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Romantic #Positivity

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Relationship #Marriage

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Single #Hurt

Change is the end result of all true learning.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Change

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Passion #Positivity

The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Positive #Happiness #Spiritual

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Running #Nature #Wind

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Powerful #Literature #Puppets

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Life #Happiness #Choices

Love is always open arms.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Love Is #Arms

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Change #Dedication #Self

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Strength

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Hope

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Uplifting #Recovery #Doors

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Motivational

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Beautiful #Nice #Done

I just saw an ad the other day that I couldn't believe. There was this woman-and I think it's degrading to womankind-she was going out of her mind over a new product called "A Thousand Flushes." Here she was in her toilet, saying, "Oh, I love this product!" and, "My life is complete!" Good God-if your joy depends on "A Thousand Flushes," you're sick!
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Believe #Thinking #Sick

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Hug #Needs #Metabolism

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Relationship #Marriage

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Wisdom #Lying #Failure

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Romantic #Issues

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Encouragement #Compassion #Unique

Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Dirty #Feet

To love others you must first love yourself.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love Yourself #First Love #Love At First Sight

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Happiness #Death #Lost Love

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Believe #Unique #Space

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Life #Time #Territory

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Inspirational #Mean

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Pain #Ends

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Strength #Faith

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Encouraging #Tomorrow #Live In The Present

A life lived in love will never be dull.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Life #Live Life #Inspire

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made — everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Fall #World #Made

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Light #Offering #People

Happiness and love are just a choice away.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Attitude #Love You #Choices

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't..
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Thinking #Way #Know It All

Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Love Is #Elude

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Funny #Witty #Risk

In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Simple #Reality #Ideas

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Beauty #Strong #Pain

When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Lying #Love Is #Ebb And Flow

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love You #Love Is #People

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.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Change #Lonely #Loneliness

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Relationship #Playing Games

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Courage #Risk #Suffering

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Positive #Gratitude #Attitude

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Trying #Limits #Becoming

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Fighting #Battle #Hardest

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Kindness #Thoughtful #Purpose

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Fun #Educational #Learning

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Expectations #Political

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #Life #Strength

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Relationship #Heartbreak

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Inspirational #Boyfriend

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Heartbreak #Wisdom

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Time #Giving #Focus

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Relationship #Hate #Love Is

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still....
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Summer #Heart

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Beautiful #Flower #Sky

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Meaningful #Dream

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Wish #Action

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Matter #Emptiness #Empty

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Wise #Addiction #Special

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Letting Go #Hands #Mind

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Life #Change #Missing

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Courage #Classroom #Immersion

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Caring #Choices #Way

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Choices #Joy #Growth

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love You #Love Yourself #Giving

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

#Art #Class #Wife

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Teaching #Moments

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
-- Leo Buscaglia

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love Is #Interaction

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Helping #Reason #Share

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#May #Way #Becoming

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#People #Choices #Joy

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love Is #And Love #Alive

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Discovery #Self

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Unique #Space #Realization

Success often lies just the other side of failure.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Lying #Sides

Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Unique #Loving Yourself #Discovery

We all need each other.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Needs

My rule is always, People first and things second.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#People #Firsts

When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well-being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both....
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love You #Unique #Love Is

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy....
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love You #Effort #Healthy

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Positive #Love Is #Expectations

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Food #Miracle #World

A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Love #Life #Doors

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Moving On #Letting Go #Pain

Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Inspirational #People #Way

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Sympathy #Memories #Knowing

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Best Love #Fall #Love Is

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
-- Leo Buscaglia

#Doubt #Identity #Needs