Leo Buscaglia Quotes

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Don't over analyze your relationships.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.

There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.

In love, each man is his own personal challenge.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.

I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!

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.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

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.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, alistening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, allof which have the potential to turn a life around.

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force

Man created words to free himself

Live, love and learn

Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

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

We all fear what we don't know-it's natural.

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?

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!

When we feel joyful euphoric happy we are more open to life more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

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

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

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.

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

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.