Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

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

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

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... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized... view

By: Leo Buscaglia

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance... view

By: Leo Buscaglia