Leo Buscaglia
I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!Collection: Passion
To love is to risk not being loved in return.Collection: Life
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!Collection: Insanity
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.Collection: Reading
The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.Collection: Hate
There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.Collection: Food
The life and love we create is the life and love we live.Collection: Love
Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.Collection: Love Is
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!Collection: Inspirational
A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't I?"How satisfied would we be if we presented someone with a vintage wine and, upon asking his opinion of it, he replied, "I'm drinking it, aren't I?"Love still needs expression between those who share it.Collection: Love
We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.Collection: Born
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.Collection: Needs
As long as you are free, you are free to select and choose alternatives, provided that you are willing to accept the responsibility for being free. And after you've tried your alternatives, and they don't work as you would wish, don't blame me. Blame your choice. Try another alternative.Collection: Freedom
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.Collection: Relationship
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.Collection: Love
Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.Collection: Teaching
Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.Collection: Life
Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.Collection: Labels
To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.Collection: Love You
We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.Collection: Common Humanity
We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.Collection: Children
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.Collection: Joyful
Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.Collection: Love
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.Collection: Hurt
That's love. That's all it means. It means sharing joy with people.Collection: Love
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.Collection: People
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.Collection: Garden
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.Collection: Children
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer.Collection: Love You
Happiness and love are just a choice away.Collection: Attitude
Child development: Most damaging course of action is attempting to keep children from experience or protect them from pain, for it is this time that children learn that life is a magic thing, if "not a rose garden." The parent's role is primarily to stand by with a good supply of band-aids.Collection: Children
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.Collection: Self
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.Collection: Time
Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.Collection: Love
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)Collection: Education
We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.Collection: Inspirational
We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.Collection: Inspirational Love
My rule is always, People first and things second.Collection: People
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.Collection: Love
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.Collection: Love
I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my vehicle that is essential. I don't know about you, but I don't feel that it's my education that is essential. I don't think what is essential about me is my house or my car or my clothes. What is essential about me? Well, I think what is essential is that I live and embrace life right now, wherever I am. I grab it in my arms! Don't spend time crying about yesterday-yesterday is over with! I forgive my past. I forgive the people who've hurt me. I don't want to spend the rest of my life blaming and pointing a finger.Collection: Hurt
The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.Collection: Learning
Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.Collection: Believe
Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours .... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.Collection: Love You
Why do we protect children from life? It's no wonder that we become afraid to live. We're not told what life really is. We're not told that life is joy and wonder and magic and even rapture, if you can get involved enough. We're not told that life is also pain, misery, despair, unhappiness, and tears. I don't know about you, but I don't want to miss any of it. I want to embrace life, and I want to find out what it's all about. I wouldn't want to go through life without knowing what it is to cry.Collection: Life
Catch the beauty of the moment!Collection: Moments
There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.Collection: Positive
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.Collection: Love