110+ Leo Buscaglia Quotes On Kindness, Death And Marriage

Leo Buscaglia was an American author, motivational speaker, and professor. He was known for his inspirational talks and books on the topics of love, self-esteem, and life. He was a proponent of living life to its fullest and encouraged people to express their feelings and to be open to love and affection. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Leo Buscaglia on kindness, death, love.

Top 10 Leo Buscaglia Quotes

1. Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
6. 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!
7. 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.
8. Change is the end result of all true learning.
9. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
10. 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 Image Quotes

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

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

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

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

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. — Leo Buscaglia

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. — Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia Short Quotes

• Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.
• Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
• He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn't know what's going on.
• What you are is God's gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
• The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
• Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
• Happiness and love are just a choice away.
• Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
• If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
• You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Kindness

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. — Leo Buscaglia

There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. — Leo Buscaglia

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot. — 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

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Death

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

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

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death. — Leo Buscaglia

Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, Did you bring joy?The second was, Did you find joy? — 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

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Love

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

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

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. — 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

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

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. — Leo Buscaglia

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. — 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

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Life

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

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life. — Leo Buscaglia

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. — 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

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

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

A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one. — Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Inspiring

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness. — 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

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it. — Leo Buscaglia

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. — Leo Buscaglia

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you. — Leo Buscaglia

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love. — Leo Buscaglia

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon! — Leo Buscaglia

A life lived in love will never be dull. — Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God's gift to you. — Leo Buscaglia

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words! — Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Joyful

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

Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW! — Leo Buscaglia

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? — Leo Buscaglia

Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he's never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure. — Leo Buscaglia

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can." — Leo Buscaglia

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment. — Leo Buscaglia

That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people. — Leo Buscaglia

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." — Leo Buscaglia

You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love. — Leo Buscaglia

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation. — Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About People

Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? — Leo Buscaglia

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes. — Leo Buscaglia

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is. — 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

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it. — Leo Buscaglia

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies. — Leo Buscaglia

Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression. — 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

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About Learning

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

The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away. — Leo Buscaglia

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work. — Leo Buscaglia

Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids. — Leo Buscaglia

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy. — 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

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking. — Leo Buscaglia

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia Quotes About World

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

In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you sane — Leo Buscaglia

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away. — 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

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too. — Leo Buscaglia

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. — Leo Buscaglia

He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum. — Leo Buscaglia

We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed. — 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

A wonderful day will be the day you realize that you are unique in the world. — Leo Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch. — Leo Buscaglia

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — 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

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. — 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

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

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. — Leo Buscaglia

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure. — 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

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

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 is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity. — Leo Buscaglia

I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't. — Leo Buscaglia

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. — Leo Buscaglia

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice. — Leo Buscaglia

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. — Leo Buscaglia

To love is to risk not being loved in return. — 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

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. — Leo Buscaglia

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? — Leo Buscaglia

We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.' — Leo Buscaglia

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose. — Leo Buscaglia

Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever. — Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. — Leo Buscaglia

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. — Leo Buscaglia

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy. — Leo Buscaglia

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor. — Leo Buscaglia

A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it. — Leo Buscaglia

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. — Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon. — Leo Buscaglia

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love. — Leo Buscaglia

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. — Leo Buscaglia

Success often lies just the other side of failure. — Leo Buscaglia

Life Lessons by Leo Buscaglia

1. Life is precious and should be cherished, as Leo Buscaglia reminds us to appreciate the little things in life and to take time to connect with those we love.
2. He encourages us to be kind and gentle with ourselves and to take risks and be open to new experiences.
3. He also emphasizes the importance of self-love and self-acceptance, reminding us that we are all unique and valuable individuals.