Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia PhD, also known as "Dr. Love," was an American author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1924
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
Leo Buscaglia quotes about
freedom responsibility wish
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
learning essence giving
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.
beautiful nice needs
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.'
responsibility perfect forgiving
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
quality want process
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.
love-you giving ifs
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.
listening action
Listening is love in action.
evil failing our-relationship
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
love love-is elude-us
Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
moments unhappiness lost
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
love romantic issues
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.
giving important world
The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away ...
mistake order trying
In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes...
love running people
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.