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A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. -- Leo Buscaglia
Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW! -- Leo Buscaglia
Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression ... -- Leo Buscaglia
There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry. -- Leo Buscaglia
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed. -- Leo Buscaglia
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure. -- Leo Buscaglia
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. -- Leo Buscaglia
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! -- Leo Buscaglia
We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are. -- Leo Buscaglia
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ... -- Leo Buscaglia
The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new. -- Leo 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. -- Leo Buscaglia
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative. -- Leo Buscaglia
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! -- Leo Buscaglia
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing. -- Leo Buscaglia
We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table. -- Leo Buscaglia
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? -- Leo Buscaglia
Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,
but it is the only way to live life completely. -- Leo Buscaglia
The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love." -- Leo Buscaglia
Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love. -- Leo Buscaglia
When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. -- Leo Buscaglia
To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. -- Leo Buscaglia
Man created words to free himself -- Leo Buscaglia
We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact
with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too. -- Leo Buscaglia
The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. -- Leo Buscaglia
To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others. -- Leo Buscaglia
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. -- Leo Buscaglia
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself
to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart -- Leo Buscaglia
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids. -- Leo Buscaglia
It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
In love, each man is his own personal challenge. -- Leo Buscaglia
He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment. -- Leo Buscaglia
I got the copyright for love! -- Leo Buscaglia
The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal. -- Leo Buscaglia
Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. -- Leo Buscaglia
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. -- Leo Buscaglia
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. -- Leo Buscaglia
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! -- Leo Buscaglia
When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted. -- Leo Buscaglia
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. -- Leo Buscaglia
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.' -- Leo Buscaglia
It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. -- Leo Buscaglia
Loving means sharing joy with people. -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer. -- Leo Buscaglia
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. -- Leo Buscaglia
Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. -- Leo Buscaglia
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else. -- Leo Buscaglia
As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives. -- Leo Buscaglia
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. -- Leo Buscaglia
Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching. -- Leo Buscaglia
Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. -- Leo Buscaglia
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours ... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise. -- Leo Buscaglia
A life lived in love will never be dull. -- Leo Buscaglia
Happiness and love are just a choice away. -- Leo Buscaglia
No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now. -- Leo Buscaglia
Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy ... Why not choose joy? ... Why not live in joy? -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
My rule is always, People first and things second. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
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
To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever. -- Leo Buscaglia
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Your talent is God's gift to you. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning. -- Leo Buscaglia
To love others you must first love yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be a garden ... a single friend, my world. -- Leo Buscaglia
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. -- Leo Buscaglia
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. -- Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. -- Leo Buscaglia
God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy? -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. -- Leo Buscaglia
I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us. -- Leo Buscaglia
The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival. -- Leo Buscaglia
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. -- Leo Buscaglia
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed. -- Leo Buscaglia
If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work. -- Leo Buscaglia
When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force -- Leo Buscaglia
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. -- Leo Buscaglia
Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU! -- Leo Buscaglia
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! -- Leo Buscaglia
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you. -- Leo Buscaglia
It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. -- Leo Buscaglia
We all need each other. -- Leo 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 Buscaglia
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. -- Leo Buscaglia
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. -- Leo Buscaglia
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. -- Leo Buscaglia
A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul. -- Leo Buscaglia
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. -- Leo Buscaglia
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing -- Leo Buscaglia
To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness -- Leo Buscaglia
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. -- Leo Buscaglia
Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. -- Leo Buscaglia
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. -- Leo Buscaglia
"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action." -- Leo Buscaglia
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. -- Leo Buscaglia
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes. -- Leo Buscaglia
I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! -- Leo Buscaglia
Live,love and learn -- Leo Buscaglia
If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter. -- Leo Buscaglia
Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life. -- Leo Buscaglia
It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving. -- Leo Buscaglia
One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning. -- Leo Buscaglia
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. -- Leo Buscaglia
To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love -- Leo Buscaglia
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
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act. -- Leo Buscaglia
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need. -- Leo Buscaglia
The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy. -- Leo Buscaglia
We all fear what we don't know - it's natural. -- Leo Buscaglia
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
The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex. -- Leo Buscaglia
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me". -- Leo Buscaglia
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. -- Leo Buscaglia
If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated. -- Leo Buscaglia
In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane -- Leo Buscaglia
We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured. -- Leo Buscaglia
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things ... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. -- Leo Buscaglia
There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance -- Leo Buscaglia
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness. -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998) -- Leo Buscaglia
The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you. -- Leo Buscaglia
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. -- Leo Buscaglia
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love. -- Leo Buscaglia
Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing. -- Leo Buscaglia
The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
Don't over analyze your relationships. -- Leo Buscaglia
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. -- Leo Buscaglia
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
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally. -- Leo Buscaglia
Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment. -- Leo Buscaglia
The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. -- Leo Buscaglia
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.. -- Leo Buscaglia
I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. -- Leo Buscaglia
Learn to bend. It's better than breaking. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life. -- Leo Buscaglia
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love is always open arms. -- Leo Buscaglia
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. -- Leo Buscaglia
Listening is love in action. -- Leo Buscaglia
Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away. -- Leo Buscaglia
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. -- Leo Buscaglia
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! -- Leo Buscaglia
The life and love we create is the life and love we live. -- Leo Buscaglia
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love. -- Leo Buscaglia
The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies. -- Leo Buscaglia
In the end you have only you. -- Leo Buscaglia
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? -- Leo Buscaglia
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes ... -- Leo Buscaglia
I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. -- Leo Buscaglia
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation. -- Leo Buscaglia
We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?' -- Leo Buscaglia
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. -- Leo Buscaglia
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control. -- Leo Buscaglia
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. -- Leo Buscaglia
People are not here to meet your expectations. -- Leo Buscaglia
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. -- Leo 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 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 Buscaglia
What do years have to do with age? -- Leo Buscaglia
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us ... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God -- Leo Buscaglia
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." -- Leo Buscaglia
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves. -- Leo Buscaglia
Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state -- Leo Buscaglia
Catch the beauty of the moment! -- Leo Buscaglia
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time. -- Leo Buscaglia
To that there is an answer. -- Leo Buscaglia
When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves. -- Leo Buscaglia
If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. -- Leo Buscaglia
He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on. -- Leo Buscaglia
If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love. -- Leo Buscaglia
The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. -- Leo Buscaglia
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all -- Leo Buscaglia
To love others you must love yourself ... You can only give to others what you have yourself. -- Leo Buscaglia
Change is the end result of all true learning. -- Leo Buscaglia