Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, also known as “Dr. Love,” was an American author, motivational speaker, and professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. He was born on March 31, 1924, and died on June 12, 1998.
61 Leo Buscaglia Quotes
- “Change is the end result of all true learning.”
2. “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.”
3. “Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.”
4. “The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.”
5. “Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.”
6. “If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.”
7. “The hardest battle you’re ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.”
8. “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”
9. “Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”
10. “Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.”
11. “Don’t hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
12. “Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.”
13. “Love is life and if you miss love, you miss life. ”
14. “I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.”
15. “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.”
16. “Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.”
17. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”
18. “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.”
19. “Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.”
The Best Leo Buscaglia Love Quotes
20. “A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.”
21. “It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.”
22. “Love always creates, it never destroys. In this, lies man’s only promise.”
23. “When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”
24. “To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness”
25. “Perfect love is rare indeed. It is to be wondered if any man has ever achieved it.”
26. “Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both”
27. “When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force”
28. “Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time. It tells us to grow, it tells us to become! It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other. It tells us to give ourselves away now!”
29. “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!”
30. “Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.”
31. “To love others you must first love yourself.”
32. “A life lived in love will never be dull.”
Leo Buscaglia Quotes On Forgiveness
33. “Forgive others! Forgive yourself. Forgive yourself for not being perfect. And accept the responsibility for your own life.”
34. “I forgive my past. I forgive the people who’ve hurt me. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.”
35. “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance”
36. “You are never going to be able to choose life until you learn to forgive!”
37. “Bearing grudges only hurts you. Forgiveness forgives you, releases you.”
38. “When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”
Leo Buscaglia Quotes On Happiness
39. “Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”
40. “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
41. “Happiness and love are just a choice away.”
42. “Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”
43. “What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.”
44. “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.”
45. “You only fear death when you’re not living.”
46. “Man created words to free himself”
47. “In the end you have only you.”
48. “Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.”
49. “Relationships and togetherness must be lived in the present. You have to live now, you have to enjoy it now, you have to do for people now.”
Inspirational Leo Buscaglia Quotes
49. “The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all”
50. “The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”
51. “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”
52. “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.”
53. “If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”
54. “We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.”
55. “Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.”
56. “Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life.”
57. “Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.”
58. “Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”
59. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
60. “Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”
61. “The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.”
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