Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Leo Buscaglia (American Motivational Speaker)

Felice Leonardo “Leo” Buscaglia (1924–98) was an American self-help author and motivational speaker. He championed the philosophy that love heals all and gained a reputation as an “apostle of love” for concluding his speeches by hugging every audience member.

Buscaglia got his start as a speech therapist and a supervisor of special education in Pasadena, California. When working as an education professor at the University of Southern California, the suicide of one of his students distressed him. He was inspired to teach a course titled “Love 101,” combining sociology and psychology. Six hundred students attended the first lecture, prompting Buscaglia to launch his career as a motivational writer and speaker. His first book, Love (1972,) examined the phenomenon of human love as the one unifying force in life.

Buscaglia authored over a dozen books and sold more than 11 million copies in 20 languages. His other notable books were Living, Loving and Learning (1982) and Loving Each Other (1984.) Once, five of his books appeared on the New York Times best-seller list simultaneously.

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What you are is God’s gift to you, what you do with yourself is your gift to God.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Gifts

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.
Leo Buscaglia

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Assistance, Aid, Help

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

Don’t smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

There are two big forces at work, external and internal. We have very little control over external forces such as tornadoes, earthquakes, floods, disasters, illness, and pain. What really matters is the internal force. How do I respond to those disasters? Over that, I have complete control.
Leo Buscaglia

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 The Artist understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter’s frost and chill, summer’s warmth is in them still.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love

Your talent is God’s gift to you; what you do with it is your gift to God.
Leo Buscaglia

Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Living, Love, Life

I have learned that love is the most powerful force available to us. When we have real love we have the strength to perform miracles.
Leo Buscaglia

Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Life and Living

Go around—listen to how many times a day you say, “I love” instead of, “I hate”. Isn’t it interesting that children, as they learn the process of language, always learn the word “no” years before they learn the word “yes”? Ask linguists where they hear it. Maybe if they heard more of “I love, I love, I love” they’d hear it sooner and more often.
Leo Buscaglia

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don’t let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don’t ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Identity

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Being Ourselves

What’s the good of all our learning, knowing how to read and write and spell if no one ever teaches us the value of life, of our uniqueness, and personal dignity?
Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love, Life

Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie’s man’s only promise.
Leo Buscaglia

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
Topics: Romance

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.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Joy, Purpose, Vision

DON’T MISS LOVE. It’s an incredible gift. I love to think that the day you’re born, you’re given the world as your birthday present. It frightens me to think that so few people even bother to open up the ribbon! Rip it open! Tear off the top! It’s just full of love and magic and joy and wonder and pain and tears. All of the things that are your gift for being human.
Leo Buscaglia

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.
Leo Buscaglia

A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Courage, Growth, Life

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love, Lies, Act

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Circumstance, Chance

I’d like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.
Leo Buscaglia

This loving person is a person who abhors waste—waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Time Management, Action, Learning

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: One liners, Purpose

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.
Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Choices

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