Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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.

He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.

Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

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.

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

What do years have to do with age?

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

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

We all need each other.