Leo Buscaglia quotes

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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.

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.

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

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.

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

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

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

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

I was lucky to have such a loving, crazy family. I learned to give and share.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

I 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.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

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.

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.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.

We all need each other.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

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

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

Change is the end result of all true learning.

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.

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

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

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

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

I 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.

When we sit at the table, there is more going on than satisfying hunger. It is sad to think of those who eat simply to satisfy their hunger and who do not permit themselves to linger under the many spells offered by a good meal - the satisfaction of our hearts, our minds and our spirits.

I have been a teacher myself all my life. I have an intense passion to share with people. Our only salvation is in knowledge, in learning.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

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.

The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street.