Leo Buscaglia Quotes - Page 7

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

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.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy... Why not choose joy?... Why not live in joy?

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

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. This theory believes that love is a magical force which frees us from all suffering and solves every problem, that it is an end unto itself. To a limited extent, there may be some truths to each of these beliefs, but having the capacity to love is not the same as having the ability to love.

I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.

When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.

If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it.

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

Love is always open arms.

He must also know evil, hate and bigotry as real phenomena, but he must see love as the greater force. He must not doubt this even for a moment or he is lost. His only salvation is to dedicate himself to love, in the same fashion as Gandhi did to militant nonviolence, as Socrates to truth, as Jesus did to love and as More did to integrity. Only then will he have the strength to combat the forces of doubt, confusion and contradiction. He can depend upon no on or no thing for reinforcement and assurance but himself.