Leo Buscaglia Quotes

“It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”

“The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away.”

“We are all born with God-given, unique traits and skills. But, as with all possibilities they will remain unrealized unless they are developed, nurtured, and put into practice.”

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

“Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.”

“Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.”

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.”

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

“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!”

“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.”

“Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God.”

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

“Listening is love in action.”

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

“If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

“Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don’t.”

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

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”

“Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.”

“Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’.”

“The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing.”

“Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.”

“Change is the end result of all true learning.”

“The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.”

“A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”

“Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.”

“We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, ‘If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?’”

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

“What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for eternity.”

“The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.”

“Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, ‘Did you bring joy?’ The second was, ‘Did you find joy?’”