We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty. Leo Buscaglia More Quotes by Leo Buscaglia More Quotes From Leo Buscaglia Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade. Leo Buscaglia marriage love relationship It is the foregiver who is freed in foregiving. Leo Buscaglia inspirational Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life. Leo Buscaglia dream meaningful love Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it. Leo Buscaglia change inspirational life I exist, I am, I am here, I am becoming, I make my own life and no one else makes it for me. I must face my own shortcomings, mistakes, transgressions. No one can suffer my non-being as I do, but tomorrow is another day, and I must decide to leave my bed and live again. And if I fail, I don't have the comfort of blaming you or life or God. Leo Buscaglia suffering here-i-am mistake There are all kinds of symbols. Verbal language is only one. Sometimes by opening our mouths, we make dreadful errors. It's often so much nicer just to look at somebody and vibrate. Leo Buscaglia errors mouths looks A life lived in love will never be dull. Leo Buscaglia inspire life dull The essence of education is not to stuff you with facts but to help you discover your uniqueness, to teach you how to develop it, and then to show you how to give it away. Leo Buscaglia learning essence giving 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 passion essence love What we need to know about loving is no great mystery. We all know what constitutes loving behavior; we need but act upon it, not continually question it. Over-analysis often confuses the issue and in the end brings us no closer to insight. We sometimes become too busy classifying, separating, and examining, to remember that love is easy. It's we who make it complicated. Leo Buscaglia issues love romantic We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.' Leo Buscaglia nice beautiful needs What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life. Leo Buscaglia make-others-happy happiness life A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully. Leo Buscaglia doors love life We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too. Leo Buscaglia made world fall I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. Leo Buscaglia nature running wind The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away. Leo Buscaglia important giving world I think we need to teach children the importance of others, and that they cannot grow in this world without taking in others. The more worlds they take in, these unique worlds, the more they can become. We need to teach them to trust others again, because we're all frightened to death of each other. We're building higher and higher walls, stronger and stronger locks. Tear down the walls! Every day I see how we're distrusting and it hurts. Leo Buscaglia wall hurt children ...the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn. If somebody hates me, they must "feel" something ... or they couldn't possibly hate. Therefore, there's some way in which I can get to them. Leo Buscaglia hate love-is relationship I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is. Leo Buscaglia want love-is people Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance Leo Buscaglia focus time giving