Leo Buscaglia 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.

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.

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.

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.

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

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

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

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.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

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

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'

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

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

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

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

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?

Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

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

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.

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

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.

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

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane

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.

Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

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.

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.