Quotes on Love: Leo Buscaglia

"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 this 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

"I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn."
-Leo Buscaglia

"Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

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

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise."
- Leo Buscaglia

"It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely."
-Leo Buscaglia

"As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming."
-Leo Buscaglia

"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

"The hardest battle you're ever going to fight is the battle to be just you."
-Leo Buscaglia

"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

"Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyse your relationships. Stop playing games. A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness."
-Leo Buscaglia

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

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

"Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.

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

"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."
-Leo Buscaglia

"Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy."
-Leo Buscaglia

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