Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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

Friendship, Single, Friend

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Smile, Life, Power

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

Love, Loved, Gift

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

Love, Life, Miss

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Inspirational, Smile, Knowledge

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

Strength, Strong, Weak

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

Love, Hate, Strong

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

Future, Change, Lonely

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

Love, Living, Forever

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

Motivational, God, Talent

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Put, Difficult, Position

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Time, Death

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

Love, Lost, Give

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

Nature, Down, Play

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

Today, Tomorrow, Joy

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Learning, Time, Parents

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

Live, Others, Idealize

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.
Leo Buscaglia

Education, Change, Learning

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

Life, Tomorrow, Away

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

Wisdom, Ignorance, Teach

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia

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

Grow, Shade, Smother

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

Love, Lie, Promise

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.
Leo Buscaglia

Good, Thought, Light

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 31, 1924

Died: June 11, 1998

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