Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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.

The greatest gift you can give another person is your presence.

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

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be.

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.

Your talent and your uniqueness is the gift you give to yourself and the world.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can accomplish anything you set out to accomplish, if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

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

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.

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.

If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another.

I have learned that love is a state of being and is not dependent on a person or an event.

The easiest thing to do is to love yourself, but it’s the hardest thing to truly believe in yourself.

Leo Buscaglia Quotes part 2

The greatest failure is not trying at all.

You are a unique gift to the world, and you have the power to make a difference.

To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.

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

You can’t make someone else’s choices. You shouldn’t let someone else make yours.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

The more you express gratitude for what you have, the more things you’ll have to express gratitude for.

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.

If you cannot accept praise, never give it.

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

You can’t hold onto hate and still truly care about someone.

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

If you want to be listened to, you should put in time listening.

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.

To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

Don’t be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

Love creates an us without destroying the me.

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.

Don’t save anything for a special occasion. Being alive is the special occasion.

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, feel, change, grow, love, and live.

Your talent and uniqueness is the gift you give to yourself and others.

Being widely known is not the same thing as being widely known for one’s work, however. Develop your gift.

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

To live in love is life’s greatest joy.

We are all born to love and be loved. To succeed in love is the joy. To fail in love is the greatest sorrow.

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

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

The only thing that can control your happiness is you.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie man’s only promise.

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.

Alfred Sorsazo

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