Leo Buscaglia Quotes

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

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

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Felice Leonardo Buscaglia (March 31, 1924 – June 12, 1998), also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

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 sp...

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.

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of...

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

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happi...

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?

Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself - to laugh with me but never at me to cry with me but never because of me to love life to love himself to love being lov...

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

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest accomplishment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you.