362 Quotes by Leo Buscaglia

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.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

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?

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.

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.

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

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

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