Quotes from Dr. Felice Leonardo Buscaglia

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, "Oh yes, you're so right," but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!

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.

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

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.

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.

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

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.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.