Leo F. Buscaglia
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
Leo F. BuscagliaA single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.
Leo F. BuscagliaLike any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy.
Leo F. BuscagliaHappiness and love are just a choice away.
Leo F. BuscagliaMost of us are pawns in a game of love we don't understand.
Leo F. BuscagliaI 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
Leo F. BuscagliaA loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
Leo F. BuscagliaLife is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo F. BuscagliaDon't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo F. BuscagliaTime has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
Leo F. BuscagliaIf I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo F. BuscagliaChange is the end result of all true learning.
Leo F. BuscagliaToo 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 F. BuscagliaThe 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 F. BuscagliaWhat we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Leo F. BuscagliaThere 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?
Leo F. BuscagliaLove is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
Leo F. BuscagliaThings omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.
Leo F. BuscagliaLove withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.
Leo F. BuscagliaIt is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.
Leo F. BuscagliaWe 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.
Leo F. BuscagliaWe need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
Leo F. BuscagliaNo 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 F. BuscagliaDeath 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 F. BuscagliaLove is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
Leo F. Buscaglia
