Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.

Don't over analyze your relationships.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

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

Change is the end result of all true learning.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

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.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

A life without passion is not living, it's merely existing

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can."

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

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.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.

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.