Leo Buscaglia Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leo Buscaglia
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. 
The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. 
Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words. 
There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry. 
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes ... 
To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love 
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions. 
We all fear what we don't know - it's natural. 
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. 
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. 
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. 
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance 
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all 
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. 
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. 
The life and love we create is the life and love we live. 
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. 
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. 
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. 
Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning. 
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing. 
Learn to bend. It's better than breaking. 
I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. 
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. 
Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives. 
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. 
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. 
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. 
A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul. 
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness 
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. 
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. 
To love others you must first love yourself. 
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. 
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.. 
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. 
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. 
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive. 
He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on. 
My rule is always, People first and things second. 
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. 
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love. 
If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter. 
There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. 
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. 
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. 
To that there is an answer. 
Change is the end result of all true learning. 
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. 
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. 
Your talent is God's gift to you. 
We all need each other. 
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things ... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. 
What do years have to do with age? 
In love, each man is his own personal challenge. 
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. 
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love. 
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself. 
A life lived in love will never be dull. 
In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane 
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves. 
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action." 
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret 
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ... 
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. 
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.