Top 180 Leo Buscaglia Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Catch the beauty of the moment!”

— Leo Buscaglia

52. “To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, to weep is to risk appearing too sentimental, to reach out for another is to risk involvement, and to expose feelings is to risk exposing one’s true self.”

— Leo Buscaglia

53. “Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.”

— Leo Buscaglia

54. “We don’t love to be loved in return; we love to love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

55. “One does not fall “in” or “out” of love. One grows in love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

56. “The only thing of value we can give kids is what we are, not what we have.”

— Leo Buscaglia

57. “A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

58. “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

59. “Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.”

— Leo Buscaglia

60. “What love we’ve given, we’ll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.”

— Leo Buscaglia

61. “To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness.”

— Leo Buscaglia

62. “To live in love is life’s greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.”

— Leo Buscaglia

63. “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!”

— Leo Buscaglia

64. “Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.”

— Leo Buscaglia

65. “The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.”

— Leo Buscaglia

66. “One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.”

— Leo Buscaglia

67. “Fantastic things happen – to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.”

— Leo Buscaglia

68. “We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn’t. Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

— Leo Buscaglia

69. “If I don’t have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.”

— Leo Buscaglia

70. “Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.”

— Leo Buscaglia

71. “A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself – to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.”

— Leo Buscaglia

72. “Too often we underestimate the power of a touch...”

— Leo Buscaglia

73. “When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.”

— Leo Buscaglia

74. “Why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful?”

— Leo Buscaglia

75. “Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.”

— Leo Buscaglia

76. “Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn’t be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Leo Buscaglia

78. “We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”

— Leo Buscaglia

79. “I love to think that the day you’re born, you’re given the world as a birthday present.”

— Leo Buscaglia

80. “Don’t walk in my head with your dirty feet.”

— Leo Buscaglia

81. “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.”

— Leo Buscaglia

82. “I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.”

— Leo Buscaglia

83. “Love and the self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both.”

— Leo Buscaglia

84. “Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other.”

— Leo Buscaglia

85. “Happiness and love are just a choice away.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Leo Buscaglia

87. “God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt.”

— Leo Buscaglia

88. “Don’t look over people’s shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don’t talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don’t make love to a body, make love to a person.”

— Leo Buscaglia

89. “There is nothing wrong with making mistakes and not having all the answers, so long as we are willing to admit this and strive for personal betterment. Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out that they don’t.”

— Leo Buscaglia

90. “A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.”

— Leo Buscaglia

91. “Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because that’s the only reason for having anything.”

— Leo Buscaglia

92. “Learn to bend. It’s better than breaking.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Leo Buscaglia

94. “Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.”

— Leo Buscaglia

95. “When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.”

— Leo Buscaglia

96. “To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

97. “If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter.”

— Leo Buscaglia

98. “The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.”

— Leo Buscaglia

99. “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.”

— Leo Buscaglia

100. “Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.”

— Leo Buscaglia