Leo Buscaglia
95 quotes
Biography
"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."
"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."
"Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing."
"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."
"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."
"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 opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel"something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them."
"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."
"The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you."
"Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise."
"Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion."
"Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means."
"You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else."
"Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose."
"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!"
"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world."
"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations."
"It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us."
"A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love."
"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."
"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."
"One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love."
"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."
"We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. 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. Don’t let them put you in that position."
"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."