Leo Buscaglia Quotes - Page 6

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

We all fear what we don't know - it's natural.

We all need each other.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

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.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!