Top 100 Quotes About Love Leo Buscaglia
#2. All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.
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#3. You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.
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#4. You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.
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#5. What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
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#6. We are born for love, but it will die if not nurtured.
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#7. Love is not some complex, mystical abstraction. It is something accessible and human that we learn through our everyday experience, as often at times of failure as in moments of ecstasy ...
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#8. A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
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#9. Love is always changing and, unless we stay aware and change with it, it eludes us.
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#10. To the extent to which you know yourself, and we are all more alike than different, you can know others. When you love yourself, you will love others. And to the depth and extent to which you can love yourself, only to that depth and extent will you be able to love others.
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#11. One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.
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#12. Love, it seems, fits perfectly into no one of these molds for it may be all at once; a state of ecstasy, a state of joy, a state of disillusionment, a rational state or an irrational state
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#13. 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.
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#15. Don't look over people's shoulders. Look in their eyes. Don't talk at your children. Take their faces in your hands and talk to them. Don't make love to a body, make love to a person.
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#16. To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.
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#17. When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
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#18. Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
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#19. It's not enough to have lived.
We should be determined to live for something.
May I suggest that it be creating joy for others,
sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind,
bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.
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#20. 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.
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#21. Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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#22. If you make mistakes, if you act like a human being- I will love you no matter.
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#23. Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.
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#24. We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.
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#25. Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
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#27. Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression ...
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#28. We don't love to be loved in return; we love to love.
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#29. A life without love, no matter how many other things we have, is an empty, meaningless one.
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#30. To love others you must love yourself ... You can only give to others what you have yourself.
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#31. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.
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#32. The heart is the place where we live our passions. It is frail and easily broken, but wonderfully resilient. There is no point in trying to deceive the heart. It depends upon our honesty for its survival.
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#33. Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live.
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#34. Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.
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#35. To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness
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#36. Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.
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#37. 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.
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#38. Each man lives love in his limited fashion and does not seem to relate the resultant confusion and loneliness to his lack of knowledge about love.
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#39. If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.
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#40. The person who risk nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn and feel and change and grow and love and live.
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#41. One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.
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#42. Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
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#43. I love to think that the day you're born, you're given the world as a birthday present.
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#44. Love revels in and grows in the moment and the joy of the moment.
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#45. Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.
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#46. I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.
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#47. In life and in love, there is only that moment, the NOW. The only reality we know is what we experience this very second. Reality is not what has passed or what has yet to come into being. Grabbing hold of this simple idea makes life magical because it brings love alive.
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#48. Knowing that one is always capable of change, the second step lies in making the decision to change. Change does not occur by merely willing it anymore than behavior changes simply through insight.
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#49. Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt,
but it is the only way to live life completely.
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#50. I was one of those fortunate individuals who grew up in a large, passionate, demonstrative Italian family where we were taught to love as naturally as we breathed and ate giant bowls of pasta!
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#51. 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.
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#52. When man has love he is no longer at the mercy of forces greater than himself, for he, himself, becomes the powerful force
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#53. Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
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#54. Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.
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#56. When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.
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#57. The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.
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#58. Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.
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#59. He must understand that if he is the world's finest plum and someone he loves does not like plums, he has the choice of becoming a banana. But he must be warned that if he chooses to become a banana, he will be a second rate banana. But he can always be the best plum.
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#61. Like any other living, growing thing, love requires effort to keep it healthy ...
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#62. To love is to risk, not being loved in return. to hope is to risk pain. to try is to risk failure. but risk must be taken because the greatest hazard in my life is to risk nothing.
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#63. I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
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#64. If one wishes to be a lover he must start by saying 'YES' to love.
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#65. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
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#66. The life and love we create is the life and love we live.
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#67. As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.
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#68. The lover must often say, "I love because I must, because I will it. I love for myself, not for others. I love for the joy it gives me - and incedentally, only - for that joy it gives to others. If they reinforce me it will be good. If they do not, it also will be good, for I will to love."
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#70. 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 loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart
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#71. Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.
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#72. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears. Love lives the moment; it's neither lost in yesteryear nor does it crave for tomorrow. Love is NOW!
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#74. You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.
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#75. Love is a dynamic interaction, lived every second of our lives, all of our lives.
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#76. 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.
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#77. Life is a paradise for those who love many things with a passion.
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#78. No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.
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#79. Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.
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#80. Man must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just the beginning.
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#82. It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.
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#83. Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".
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#84. Joy is always an integral part of loving. There is joy in every act of life, no matter how menial or repetitive. To work in love is to work in joy. To live in love is to live in joy ... Why not choose joy? ... Why not live in joy?
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#85. A life of love is one of continualgrowth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to thewonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.
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#86. Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.
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#87. You can be a follower of Muhammad or Jesus or Buddha or whomever. Always, they said that the most essential factor is to love your neighbor. And to love you.
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#88. Live now. When you are eating, eat. When you are loving, love. when you are talking with someone, talk. When you are looking at a flower, look. Catch the beauty of the moment!
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#89. Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both
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#90. One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.
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#91. 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.
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#92. Love is life...and if you miss love, you miss life.
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#93. Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth. Leo Buscaglia
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#94. In love, each man is his own personal challenge.
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#95. To live in love is to live in life, and to live in life is to live in love
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#96. Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine; it becomes more satisfying, more refreshing, more valuable, more appreciated and more intoxicating!
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#97. I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.
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#98. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Every day we are offered new means for learning and growing in love.
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