We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces – we become the powerful force ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIAA life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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!
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You are a special combination for a purpose.
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Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
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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.
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Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
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We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
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What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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L.O.V.E. Such a good word. Such a limitless word. Such a limitless concept.
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What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
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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.
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Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
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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.
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Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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In a crazy world, it’s only your insanity that will keep you sane.
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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.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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To love others you must first love yourself.
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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.
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.
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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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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.
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Perfect love is rare indeed.
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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.
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We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
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