Leo Buscaglia quotes

Leo Buscaglia was an American author, motivational speaker, and professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California. Known as "Dr. Love", his books and lectures inspired countless people to embrace kindness, compassion, and human connection. He encouraged audiences to live with love and to value the deeper meaning of life. Here are 111 of his quotes:

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.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

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.

Leo Buscaglia

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.

Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

Leo Buscaglia

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.

Leo Buscaglia

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.

Leo Buscaglia

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

Leo Buscaglia

We 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 Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you.

Leo Buscaglia

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

Leo Buscaglia

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

Leo Buscaglia

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

Leo Buscaglia

When we cling to pain we end up punishing ourselves.

Leo Buscaglia