Leo Buscaglia Quotes about Love

I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.

Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

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!

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.

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.

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

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

Loving yourself involves the discovery of the true wonder of you; not only the present you, but the many possibilities of you. It involves the continual realization that you are unique, like no other person in the world, that life is, or should be, the discovery, the development and the sharing of this uniqueness.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.

The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.

As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

I will love you if you are stupid, if you slip and fall on your face, if you do the wrong thing, if you make mistakes, if you behave like a human being — I will love you no matter.

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.