Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

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.

Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Love can never grow old. Locks 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.

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Your talent is God's gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

To love others you must first love yourself.

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.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

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

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance

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!

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

In the end you have only you.

There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.

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!

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

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.

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.