Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

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

The purpose of life is to help others, and if you can’t help them, won’t you at least not hurt them? I know that is a platitude, that that is sentimental and can easily be attacked. But loving, caring is simple, and we make it complex. Our own neuroses make it complex.

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

I’ve learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

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.

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

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

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

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

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 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.

We all need each other.

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.

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.