Leo Buscaglia Quotes - Page 9

You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.

If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.

To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one's true self.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

This loving person is a person who abhors waste - waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.

Your talent is God's gift to you.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.

We began this process, and fantastic things happened — to the way we felt, to the way we made other people feel, and the interaction among us. All this simply by using positive words!

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.