Leo Buscaglia Quotes: 19

• Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

• 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.

• 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.

• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

• Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

• 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.

• Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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

• ...the opposite of love is not hate -- it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel"something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them.

• There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share what we had to give.

• The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.

• Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

• Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

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

• You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

• Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

• Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!

• The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.

• A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.