Quotes from Leo Buscaglia

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.

We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.

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.

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.

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

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

Happiness and love are just a choice away.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated.

A life lived in love will never be dull.

The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be.

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.

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

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Live,love and learn

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

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

To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness