To love others you must first love yourself.
LEO BUSCAGLIATo love others you must first love yourself.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIf you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
LEO BUSCAGLIALove is always bestowed as a gift – freely, willingly and without expectation. We don’t love to be loved; we love to love.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThe 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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAOne does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.
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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAWhen we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.
LEO BUSCAGLIAIf I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
LEO BUSCAGLIAYou are the only you. You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
LEO BUSCAGLIAOnly when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAAnything that is learned can be unlearned and relearned.
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.
LEO BUSCAGLIAThe 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 BUSCAGLIALove creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.
LEO BUSCAGLIAI’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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