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Leo Buscaglia Quotes



Quotes by Leo Buscaglia - (34 quotes)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Brother/Sisterhood category:

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Change category:

Change is the end result of all true learning. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Confidence category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Destiny category:

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Difficulty category:

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Effort category:

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Enthusiasm category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Expectation category:

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Failure category:

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Freedom category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Friendship category:

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Future category:

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Happiness category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Idealism category:

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Life category:

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Life category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Love category:

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Love category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Mysteries category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Pets category:

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat, and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Play category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Possessions category:

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp or we will find our hands full and our minds empty. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Power category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Risk category:

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Spirituality category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Strength category:

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Suffering category:

When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Talent category:

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

Leo Buscaglia - From the Time category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Truth category:

Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Unknowns category:

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Wisdom category:

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Wonder category:

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. (Leo Buscaglia)

Leo Buscaglia - From the Worry category:

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. (Leo Buscaglia)