Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Catch the beauty of the moment!

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

Listening is love in action.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!

Love is always open arms.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.

Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

A life lived in love will never be dull.

In the end you have only you.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

To love others you must first love yourself.

Success often lies just the other side of failure.

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

Your talent is God's gift to you.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

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

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

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.

What love we've given, we'll have forever.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

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

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

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 has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

To that there is an answer.

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.