01c. 1961 ADLove is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
02c. 1961 AD...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.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
03c. 1961 ADToo 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.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
04c. 1961 ADYou are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
06c. 1961 ADThe 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 / quote ↗
07c. 1961 ADThere 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.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
08c. 1961 ADThe hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
09c. 1961 ADOnly when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
10c. 1961 ADRisks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
11c. 1961 ADThere comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world and all its beauty only add to the discomfort by providing cruel contrast.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
12c. 1961 ADLoving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them. We can accomplish this only if we are willing to put in the energy and take the time to study failed relationships as well as examine successful ones. Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. Unless we are looking for pain, they must not be forever approached in a trial and error fashion. Too many of us have experienced the cost of these lackadaisical approaches in terms of tears, confusion and guilt.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
13c. 1961 ADDefinition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
14c. 1961 AD....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning before they entered the partnership....And that statement is equally valid for all relationships.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
15c. 1961 ADToo often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
16c. 1961 ADTime has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significanceLeo Buscaglia / quote ↗
19c. 1961 ADI 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 Buscaglia / quote ↗
20c. 1961 ADWhen man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful forceLeo Buscaglia / quote ↗
21c. 1961 ADEducation should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)Leo Buscaglia / quote ↗
24c. 1961 ADLove and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of bothLeo Buscaglia / quote ↗
