Leo Buscaglia
American author and professor, 1924-1998
16 quotes.
Quotes by Leo Buscaglia
- Change is the end result of all true learning.
- 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.
- I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
- If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
- It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
- Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
- No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
- Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- People are not here to meet your expectations.
- 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.
- The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.
- Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.
- To love is to risk not being loved in return. To hope is to risk pain. To try is to risk failure, but risks must be taken, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.
- 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.
- Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow. It only saps today of its joy.
- You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.