Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that I have complete control.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

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

Relish love in our old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

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

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.

The opposite of love is not hate — it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something , or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

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

Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

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.

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

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

The life and love we create is the life and love we live.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.