Top 180 Leo Buscaglia Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Success often lies just the other side of failure.”

— Leo Buscaglia

102. “A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another’s heart and soul.”

— Leo Buscaglia

103. “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.”

— Leo Buscaglia

104. “Don’t over analyze your relationships.”

— Leo Buscaglia

105. “Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it’s neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!”

— Leo Buscaglia

106. “Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.”

— Leo Buscaglia

107. “If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work.”

— Leo Buscaglia

108. “Loving means sharing joy with people.”

— Leo Buscaglia

109. “Love is always open arms.”

— Leo Buscaglia

110. “We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.”

— Leo Buscaglia

111. “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.”

— Leo Buscaglia

112. “The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.”

— Leo Buscaglia

113. “If you don’t like the scene you’re in, if you’re unhappy, if you’re lonely, if you don’t feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.”

— Leo Buscaglia

114. “My rule is always, People first and things second.”

— Leo Buscaglia

115. “Ninety per-cent of what we worry about never happens, yet we worry and worry. What a horrible way to go through life! What a horrible thing to do to your colon!”

— Leo Buscaglia

116. “Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don’t over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.”

— Leo Buscaglia

117. “Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.”

— Leo Buscaglia

118. “Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.”

— Leo Buscaglia

119. “Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it’s not love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

120. “There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real.”

— Leo Buscaglia

121. “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

122. “We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.”

— Leo Buscaglia

123. “The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.”

— Leo Buscaglia

124. “Definition 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

125. “To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk being called naive.”

— Leo Buscaglia

126. “He who remains calm while those around him panic probably doesn’t know what’s going on.”

— Leo Buscaglia

127. “Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!”

— Leo Buscaglia

128. “We all need to be recognized for what we’re doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, ‘You’re beautiful. That was well done. That’s nice.’”

— Leo Buscaglia

129. “A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.”

— Leo Buscaglia

130. “Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.”

— Leo Buscaglia

131. “To that there is an answer.”

— Leo Buscaglia

132. “The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.”

— Leo Buscaglia

133. “A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.”

— Leo Buscaglia

134. “We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.”

— Leo Buscaglia

135. “Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.”

— Leo Buscaglia

136. “In love, each man is his own personal challenge.”

— Leo Buscaglia

137. “Man seldom questions the fact that ugliness and evil are to be found in the world. But he’s never as ready to accept that life also offers unlimited beauty and potential for joy as well as endless opportunities for pleasure.”

— Leo Buscaglia

138. “There is nothing quite so satisfying, and so healing, as a good cry.”

— Leo Buscaglia

139. “After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Leo Buscaglia

141. “Love creates an “us” without destroying the “me”.”

— Leo Buscaglia

142. “Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable. The purpose of life is to matter-to count, to stand for something, to have it make so difference that we lived at all.”

— Leo Buscaglia

143. “We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.”

— Leo Buscaglia

144. “Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don’t push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!”

— Leo Buscaglia

145. “Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.”

— Leo Buscaglia

146. “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

147. “Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.”

— Leo Buscaglia

148. “We created time, and now we have become the slave of time.”

— Leo Buscaglia

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

— Leo Buscaglia

150. “It’s amazing – you may not realize it, but so much of what you are not is because you are literally standing in your own way of becoming. And what I’m pleading with you about is, get the hell out of your own way.”

— Leo Buscaglia