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 Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost. Leo Buscaglia unhappiness moments lost Love is always changing and unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us. Leo Buscaglia elude-us love-is love It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us. Leo Buscaglia bases love-is giving Happiness and love are just a choice away. Leo Buscaglia choices love-you attitude I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. Leo Buscaglia lonely loneliness change We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail. Leo Buscaglia our-relationship failing evil The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change. Leo Buscaglia positive-change trauma suffering If you want to learn to love, then you must start the process of finding out what it is, what qualities make up a loving person and how these are developed. Each person has the potential for love. But potential is never realized without work. Leo Buscaglia quality process want It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life! Leo Buscaglia hurt mistake life Love is always open arms. Leo Buscaglia arms love-is love Listening is love in action. Leo Buscaglia listening action One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning. Leo Buscaglia ability-to-love ability matter When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt. Leo Buscaglia disappointment hurt giving Say "yes" to life! "Yes" to wonder, to joy, to despair. "Yes" to pain, "yes" to what you don't understand. Try "yes." Try "always." Try "possible." Try "hopeful." Try "I will." And try "I can." Leo Buscaglia hopeful pain joy If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. Leo Buscaglia freedom responsibility wish There is only the moment. The now. Only what you are experiencing at this second is real. Leo Buscaglia moments real mindfulness Labels are distancing phenomena. They push us away from each other. Leo Buscaglia away-from-each-other labels To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness Leo Buscaglia love-oneself oneself struggle Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away. Leo Buscaglia internals circumstances happiness God made mud, God made dirt, God made boys so girls could flirt. Leo Buscaglia flirty flirting girl