Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Most popular Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
— Leo Buscaglia

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Everybody needs a hug.  It changes your metabolism. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Everybody needs a hug.  It changes your metabolism.
— Leo Buscaglia Living, Loving, & Learning

hugs

A single rose can be my garden ... a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
A single rose can be my garden ... a single friend, my world.
— Leo Buscaglia

friendship

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
— Leo Buscaglia in Executive Health Report

time

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing! - Leo Buscaglia quote.
When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. And swing!
— Leo Buscaglia

inspirational adversity

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate—it's apathy. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate—it's apathy.
— Leo Buscaglia

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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 quote.
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
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Perhaps love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself. - Not to whom I want you to be, but to who you are.
— Leo Buscaglia
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.  He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
— Leo Buscaglia Living, Loving, and Learning

risk-taking

Nikos Kazantzakis suggests that ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Nikos Kazantzakis suggests that ideal teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own.
— Leo Buscaglia Living, Loving, & Learning

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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. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
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.
— Leo Buscaglia
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain. - Leo Buscaglia quote.
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
— Leo Buscaglia
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

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