Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

To love is to risk not being loved in return.

Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.

To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.

Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.

I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.

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

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.

Love is always open arms.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.

Listening is love in action.

To love others you must first love yourself.

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

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love

A life lived in love will never be dull.

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

What love we've given, we'll have forever.

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.