Leo Buscaglia Quotes - Page 2

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

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.

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.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

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

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose -- and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredibly unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

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.

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.

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.

Learn to bend. It's better than breaking.

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.

Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

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?

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

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

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

It's amazing - you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I'm pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.

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

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

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

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.