To love others you must first love yourself. — Leo Buscaglia

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. — Leo Buscaglia

I got the copyright for love! — Leo Buscaglia

The oppposite of Love is not Hate–it’s apathy. — Leo Buscaglia

To love is to risk not being loved in return. — Leo Buscaglia

In love, each man is his own personal challenge. — Leo Buscaglia

Happiness and love are just a choice away. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is always open arms. — Leo Buscaglia

That’s love. That’s all it means. It means sharing joy with people. — Leo Buscaglia

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life. — Leo Buscaglia

One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love. — Leo Buscaglia

We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured. — Leo Buscaglia

If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying ‘YES’ to love. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation. — Leo Buscaglia

Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment. — Leo Buscaglia

Love creates an ‘us’ without destroying the ‘me’. — Leo Buscaglia

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. — Leo Buscaglia

Listening is love in action. — Leo Buscaglia

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise. — Leo Buscaglia

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love. — Leo Buscaglia

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

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

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

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

The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have. — Leo Buscaglia

What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity. — Leo Buscaglia

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

I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share. — Leo Buscaglia

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving. — Leo Buscaglia

Your talent is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God. — Leo Buscaglia

Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism. — Leo Buscaglia

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

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. — Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning. — Leo Buscaglia

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo F. Buscaglia

Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight. — Leo Buscaglia

There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. — Leo Buscaglia

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. — Leo Buscaglia

What do years have to do with age? — Leo Buscaglia

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don’t miss it. — Leo Buscaglia

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life. — Leo Buscaglia

Ninety per–cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon! — Leo Buscaglia

The life and love we create is the life and love we live. — Leo Buscaglia

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life. — Leo Buscaglia

Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives. — Leo Buscaglia

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives. — Leo Buscaglia

Say ‘yes’ to life! ‘Yes’ to wonder, to joy, to despair. ‘Yes’ to pain, ‘yes’ to what you don’t understand. Try ‘yes.’ Try ‘always.’ Try ‘possible.’ Try ‘hopeful.’ Try ‘I will.’ And try ‘I can. — Leo Buscaglia

A life lived in love will never be dull. — Leo Buscaglia

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

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning. — Leo Buscaglia

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely. — Leo Buscaglia

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

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. — Leo Buscaglia

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions. — Leo Buscaglia

Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn’t be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. — Leo Buscaglia

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. — Leo Buscaglia

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life. — Leo Buscaglia

This loving person is a person who abhors waste–waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever. — Leo Buscaglia

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

Life is uncharted territory. it reveals its story one moment at a time. — Leo Buscaglia

Don’t spend your precious time asking ‘Why isn’t the world a better place?’ It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is ‘How can I make it better?’ To that there is an answer. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance. — Leo Buscaglia

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo Buscaglia

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving. — Leo Buscaglia

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. — Leo F. Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. — Leo Buscaglia

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away. — Leo Buscaglia

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours. — Leo Buscaglia