Leo Buscaglia Quotes

"What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity."

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

"Too 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."

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy."

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

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

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

"Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade."

"Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love."

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."

"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

"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."

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

"Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life."

"Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other."

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized."

"The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street."

"If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance."

"Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching."

"The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can't help them, won't you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex."

"Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together."

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."

"It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them."

"Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise."

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself."

"I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind."

"I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share."

"We all need each other."

"I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way."

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."