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Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

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 has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance
~ Leo Buscaglia
When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.
~ Leo Buscaglia
I got the copyright for love!
~ Leo Buscaglia
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.
~ Leo Buscaglia
You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Hugs make you feel psychologically more secure and together.
~ Leo Buscaglia
We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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!
~ Leo Buscaglia
Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
~ Leo Buscaglia
No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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.
~ Leo Buscaglia
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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.
~ Leo Buscaglia
You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
~ Leo Buscaglia
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.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
~ Leo Buscaglia