Leo Buscaglia
In the end you have only you.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Love
Listening is love in action.Collection: Listening
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.Collection: Distance
Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.Collection: Love
One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.Collection: Love
Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?Collection: Beautiful
We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'Collection: Beautiful
To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in loveCollection: Inspirational
But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not so simple. If they aren't met, they can be as devastating as physical hunger, as uncomfortable as a lack of shelter, as incapacitating as thirst. The frustration, isolation and anxiety brought about by unmet emotional needs can, like physical privation, produce death or a degree of living death - neurosis and psychosis.Collection: Men
Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.Collection: Love
You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.Collection: Choices
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don't.Collection: Mistake
Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.Collection: Inspirational
Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?Collection: Moving On
Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to GodCollection: Inspirational
Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.Collection: Love You
Don't ever believe that you are going to be peaceful-life is not like that. When you are changing all the time, you've got to continue to keep adjusting to change, which means that you are going to be constantly facing new obstacles. That's the joy of living. And once you are involved in the process of becoming, there is no stopping. You're doomed! You're gone! But what a fantastic journey! Every day is new. Every flower is new. Every face is new. Everything in the world is new, every morning of your life. Stop seeing it as a drag!Collection: Inspirational
In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.Collection: Simple
A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.Collection: Unique
The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.Collection: Fighting
Tact is rubbing out another's mistake instead of rubbing it in.Collection: Mistake
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.Collection: Love
Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?Collection: Happiness
A life without passion is not living, it's merely existingCollection: Gratitude
Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.Collection: Caring
Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.Collection: Truth
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at allCollection: Funny
In a crazy world, it's only your insanity that will keep you saneCollection: Crazy
You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.Collection: Love You
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.Collection: Inspirational
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.Collection: Inspirational
One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.Collection: Love
Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self - a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change - the willful act of making the change, doing something.Collection: Change
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!Collection: Love
The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.Collection: Giving
It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.Collection: Inspirational
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 heartCollection: Love
Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.Collection: Uplifting
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.Collection: Helping
You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.Collection: Self
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.Collection: Love
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which is the very essence of loving them.Collection: Kindness
We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'Collection: Hurt
People are not here to meet your expectations.Collection: People
When you love someone you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so little faith in the ebb and flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible, in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedomCollection: Lying
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.Collection: Life
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.Collection: Love
Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.Collection: Inspirational