Leo Buscaglia

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.
Leo Buscaglia

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

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

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
Leo Buscaglia

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain
Leo Buscaglia

Love can never grow old. Locks 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.
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

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

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
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've always though 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.
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 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

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
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

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

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

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

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

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
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

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

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