Love is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
LEO BUSCAGLIAFind the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
More Leo Buscaglia Quotes
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I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills.
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We never lose the people we love, even to death.
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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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Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
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No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
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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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Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.
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Living, loving & learning.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
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Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
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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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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.
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A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world.
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Even after centuries of human interacting, children still continue to rebel against their parents and siblings.
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Anything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.
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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
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Change is the end result of all true learning.
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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
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Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
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