Felice Leonardo 'Leo' Buscaglia

Leo Buscaglia was born on March 31, 1924 in Los Angeles (California) and died on June 11, 1998 in Glenbrook (Nevada). He was one of the greatest love writers of recent times. Her books have changed the way many people saw love, always extolling the ideas of living in the moment, to express the love you feel for someone and not create expectations.

Quotes and ideas

1. Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
2. Choose the path of life. Choose the path of love. Choose the way to care. Choose the path of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
3. A single rose can be my garden; a single friend my world.
4. The love we have given we will have forever. The love that we do not give will be for all eternity.
5. When we cling to pain, we end up punishing ourselves.
6. Don't cling to anger, pain or suffering. They steal your energy and take you away from love.
7. Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it meaning.
8. I really believe that the opposite of love is not hate, it is apathy. It's when you don't give a damn about something.
9. After all, evil is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We only have the present and the future to move forward.
10. What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose in life.
11. Worry never takes away your pain tomorrow, just take advantage of your joy today.
12. Only the weak are cruel. Goodness can only be expected from the strong.
13. Each of our acts makes a statement about our purpose.
14. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.
15. To expose feelings is to risk exposing yourself.
16. Only when we cheerfully give, without hesitation and without thinking about making a profit, can we really know what love means.
17. Change is the end result of all true learning.
18. Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours. And reflecting each other's love, you see infinity.
19. There are dozens of people waiting for someone like you to come, people who will appreciate your compassion, your encouragement, who will need your unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life simply because you shared your time and what you had to give.
20. Happiness and love are only one option.
21. Love is always given as a gift, freely, voluntarily and without expectations. We do not love being loved; We love to love.
22. When we are loved, the people who love us want us to be what we are, not what we are not. They rejoice in the fact that we are growing with our ideas, our dreams, our uniqueness, our future.
23. Love yourself, accept yourself, forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us do not have a source of many wonderful things.
24. Risks must be taken because the greatest risk in life is not risking anything.
25. Most of us are strangers to ourselves.
26. Your talent is God's gift to you.
27. Love is not a complex mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our daily experience, as often in moments of failure as in moments of ecstasy.
28. The fact that I can plant a seed and become a flower, share a little knowledge and become something of someone else, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are continuous spiritual exercises for me.
29. Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. Don't over-analyze your relationships. Stop playing. A growing relationship can only be fueled by authenticity.
30. I think my role is to offer support to people to provide some light on the road.
31. The person who does not risk anything does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing. You can avoid suffering and pain, but you just can't learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
32. Life is unexplored territory. Reveal your story at the last minute.
33. Too often, we underestimate the power of a caress, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, and a sincere compliment, or the slightest act of compassion, all of which have the potential to change lives.
34. Life lived for tomorrow will always be one day away from being realized.
35. The easiest thing to be in the world is you, the hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be, don't let them put you in that position.
36. Do not suffocate each other. No one can grow in the shade.
37. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not despite them, and you will have found a lover for life.
38. It is not enough to have lived. We must be determined to live for something.
39. The toughest battle you are going to fight is the battle to be just you.
40. Most of us are pawns in a love game that we don't understand.
41. It seems that we gain wisdom more easily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it is not. Success is often on the other side of failure.
42. We created time, and now we have become slaves to time.
43. A life lived in love will never be boring.
44. A love relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself: laugh with you, but never with you; cry with you, but never because of you; love life, love yourself, love to be. Such a relationship is based on freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart.
45. Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
46. Those who think they know it, have no way of discovering that this is not the case ...
47. At the end you only have you.