Leo Buscaglia Quotes

“No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.”

“The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."”

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

“Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.”

“I got the copyright for love!”

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

“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.”

“Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance”

“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.”

“Don't over analyze your relationships.”

“You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.”

“Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)”

“Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,but it is the only way to live life completely.”

“If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“To love others you must first love yourself.”

“This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.”

“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.”

“We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.”

“Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.”

“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.”

“We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

“Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.”

“When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.”

“Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?”

“The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.”