Leo Buscaglia
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
change
Change is the end result of all true learning.
-Leo Buscaglia
change
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
death
Change is the end result of all true learning.
-Leo Buscaglia
education
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
-Leo Buscaglia
freedom
A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
-Leo Buscaglia
friendship
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
future
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
-Leo Buscaglia
god
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
good
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
-Leo Buscaglia
happiness
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
-Leo Buscaglia
inspirational
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
-Leo Buscaglia
knowledge
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
-Leo Buscaglia
learning
Change is the end result of all true learning.
-Leo Buscaglia
learning
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
life
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
-Leo Buscaglia
life
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
-Leo Buscaglia
life
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
-Leo Buscaglia
life
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
-Leo Buscaglia
love
Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.
-Leo Buscaglia
motivational
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
-Leo Buscaglia
nature
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
power
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
-Leo Buscaglia
smile
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
-Leo Buscaglia
smile
Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
-Leo Buscaglia
strength
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.
-Leo Buscaglia
time
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
-Leo Buscaglia
time
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
-Leo Buscaglia
wisdom
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