Leo Buscaglia Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia Famous Quotes & Sayings
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What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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.
The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.
You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)
The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.
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.
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things ... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.
This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes ...
Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.