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
american-author grow
Don't smother each other. No one can grow in shade.
errors looks mouths
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.
positive happiness spiritual
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.
positive gratitude pain
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.
encouraging tomorrow live-in-the-present
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
listening action
Listening is love in action.
friendship best-friend true-friend
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
time giving priorities
Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
love-yourself first-love love-at-first-sight
To love others you must first love yourself.
love-yourself love-you giving
To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
common-humanity forgiving together
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.
inspirational-love return
We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.
second-best
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
joyful tension feels
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.