Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia, also known as “Dr. Love,” was an American author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education. Profoundly inspirational Leo Buscaglia quotes will encourage growth in life, make you wiser and broaden your perspective.
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Famous 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. Leo Buscaglia
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. Leo Buscaglia
Don’t spend your precious time asking Why isn’t the world a better place? It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is How can I make it better?To that there is an answer. Leo Buscaglia
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 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. Leo Buscaglia
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
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
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together. Leo Buscaglia
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give. Leo Buscaglia
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. Leo Buscaglia
Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized. Leo Buscaglia
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. Leo Buscaglia
No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now. Leo Buscaglia
Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing. Leo Buscaglia
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 or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free. Leo Buscaglia
I’ve learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it! Leo Buscaglia
Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another’s day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness. Leo Buscaglia
If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. Leo Buscaglia
When love is accompanied with deep intimacy, it raises us to the highest level of human experience. In this exalted space, we can surrender our egos, become vulnerable and know levels of joy and well being unique among life experiences. We attain a glimpse of the rapture that can be ours. Boundaries are blurred, there are no limitations and we rejoice in union. We become one and, at the same time, both. Leo Buscaglia
I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning. Leo Buscaglia
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! Leo Buscaglia
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
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes. Leo Buscaglia
All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That’s where I learned about love. Leo Buscaglia
I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel that it’s my vehicle that is essential. I don’t know about you, but I don’t feel that it’s my education that is essential. I don’t think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don’t spend time crying about yesterday yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who’ve hurt me. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger. Leo Buscaglia
The way to anybody’s heart is through a thoughtfully prepared, beautifully executed, lovingly presented meal. Leo Buscaglia
A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart. Leo Buscaglia
My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off. Leo Buscaglia
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn’t be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. Leo Buscaglia
We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces we become the powerful force ourselves. Leo Buscaglia
It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. Leo Buscaglia
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, What a jerk! It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. Leo Buscaglia
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. Leo Buscaglia
I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. Leo Buscaglia
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong. Leo Buscaglia
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them. Leo Buscaglia
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
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things First, a dissatisfaction with self a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change the willful act of making the change, doing something. Leo Buscaglia
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia
Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. Leo Buscaglia
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. Leo Buscaglia
You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it’s time that people tell you you’re not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you. Leo Buscaglia
Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Leo Buscaglia
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
When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits. Leo Buscaglia
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us. What we make of our talents is our gift back to God. Leo Buscaglia
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man’s only promise. Leo Buscaglia
People are not here to meet your expectations. Leo Buscaglia
The best students come from homes where education is revered where there are books, and children see their parents reading them. Leo Buscaglia
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. Leo Buscaglia
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. Leo Buscaglia
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. Leo Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. Leo Buscaglia
Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t. Leo Buscaglia
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you. Leo Buscaglia
It’s amazing you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I’m pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way. Leo Buscaglia
We want to gently remind people that we don’t have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don’t take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table. Leo Buscaglia
A single rose can be my garden a single friend, my world. Leo Buscaglia
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia
Catch the beauty of the moment! Leo Buscaglia
What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. Leo Buscaglia
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us. Leo Buscaglia
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating! Leo Buscaglia
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
The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. Leo Buscaglia
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. Leo Buscaglia
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. Leo Buscaglia
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever. Leo Buscaglia
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. Leo Buscaglia
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
In life and in love, there is only that moment, the now. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive. Leo Buscaglia
I got the copyright for love! Leo Buscaglia
My rule is always, People first and things second. Leo Buscaglia
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
Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need. Leo Buscaglia
I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. Leo Buscaglia
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything. Leo Buscaglia
I’ve spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread. Leo Buscaglia
We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?Leo Buscaglia
