Leo Buscaglia Quotes on Life

22 quotes

  1. A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

  2. 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.

  3. DON'T MISS LOVE. It's an incredible gift. I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as your birthday present. It frightens me to think that so few people even bother to open up the ribbon! Rip it open! Tear off the top! It's just full of love and magic and joy and wonder and pain and tears. All of the things that are your gift for being human.

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

  5. I started my Love Class as a result of the suicide of one of my most talented students. She showed no sign of her despair. Then one day she took her life. I had to ask, 'What's the good of all our learning, knowing how to read and write and spell if no one ever teaches us the value of life, of our uniqueness, and personal dignity?' So I started my Love Class. I taught it free of salary and tuition just so students could have a forum to consider the truly essential things. I really didn't 'teach' the class. I facilitated it - helping the students to discover their own magic.

  6. I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

  7. Ancient Egyptians believed that upon death they would be asked two questions and their answers would determine whether they could continue their journey in the afterlife. The first question was, 'Did you bring joy?' The second was, 'Did you find joy?'

  8. Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

  9. 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.

  10. Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.

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

  12. I will leave you with this one thought. You know, I am really convinced that if you were to define love, the only word big enough to engulf it all would be 'life.' Love is life in all aspects. And if you miss love, you miss life. Please don't.

  13. Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

  14. Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

  15. Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.

  16. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.

  17. There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters?

  18. Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.

  19. To live in love is life's greatest challenge.

  20. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love.

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

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

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