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 F. BUSCAGLIA
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Leo Buscaglia Quotes: The Time for Love is Now
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A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes:
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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 F. BUSCAGLIA
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Change is the end result of all true learning.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
Happiness and love are just a choice away.
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA
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.
