Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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

Food is celebratory. People who don’t cook don’t know how much fun they’re missing.

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.

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

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

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

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

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.

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.

If you’re an advocate of gentleness, you’re simplistic and naive. If you’re an advocate of despair and hate, you’re sophisticated.

I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

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

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.

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