Top 180 Leo Buscaglia Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

152. “Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.”

— Leo Buscaglia

153. “Things omitted are often more deadly than errors committed.”

— Leo Buscaglia

154. “Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.”

— Leo Buscaglia

155. “When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.”

— Leo Buscaglia

156. “The oppposite of Love is not Hate – it’s apathy.”

— Leo Buscaglia

157. “There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It’s often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate.”

— Leo Buscaglia

158. “This loving person is a person who abhors waste-waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.”

— Leo Buscaglia

159. “Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.”

— Leo Buscaglia

160. “When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.”

— Leo Buscaglia

161. “It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.”

— Leo Buscaglia

162. “It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving.”

— Leo Buscaglia

163. “One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.”

— Leo Buscaglia

164. “There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.”

— Leo Buscaglia

165. “Love withers with predictability; its very essence is surprise and amazement. To make love a prisoner of the mundane is to take its passion and lose it forever.”

— Leo Buscaglia

166. “It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.”

— Leo Buscaglia

167. “I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!”

— Leo Buscaglia

168. “Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.”

— Leo Buscaglia

169. “Tact is rubbing out another’s mistake instead of rubbing it in.”

— Leo Buscaglia

170. “Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.”

— Leo Buscaglia

171. “Based on a string of bad breakups, I was forced to examine my choice of partners. Surely, that must have abolished me from any wrongdoing.”

— Leo Buscaglia

172. “If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying ‘YES’ to love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

173. “To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.”

— Leo Buscaglia

174. “We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.”

— Leo Buscaglia

175. “Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.”

— Leo Buscaglia

176. “We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, ‘If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?’”

— Leo Buscaglia

177. “What do years have to do with age?”

— Leo Buscaglia

178. “The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.”

— Leo Buscaglia

179. “Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.”

— Leo Buscaglia

180. “Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.”

— Leo Buscaglia

181. “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.”

— Leo Buscaglia

182. “We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.”

— Leo Buscaglia