When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
LEO BUSCAGLIAToo 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.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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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.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.
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Happiness and love are just a choice away.
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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
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A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.
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I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
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Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
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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.
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Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
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It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.
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