Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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.

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

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!

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.

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.

Perfect love is rare indeed.

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.

A single rose can be my garden – a single friend, my world.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

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