Famous Quotes & Sayings

Leo Buscaglia

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still....

Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms.

Leo Buscaglia

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Leo Buscaglia

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer....

Leo Buscaglia

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

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

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

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

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

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

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

Leo Buscaglia

To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.

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

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

A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

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

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

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

Leo Buscaglia

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

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

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

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

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 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

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....