Leo Buscaglia
Leo Buscaglia
Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia PhD, also known as "Dr. Love," was an American author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth31 March 1924
CityLos Angeles, CA
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful nice needs
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.'
freedom responsibility wish
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.
loneliness lying men
Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.
moments unhappiness lost
Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.
hurt children tired
I get so sick and tired of hearing people gripe about what their parents did to them. You know what your parents did to you? The best thing they could do. The best thing they knew how, the only thing in many cases that they knew how. Nobody has set out maliciously to hurt their child, unless they were psychotic.
hurt disappointment giving
When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.
evil failing our-relationship
We are not evil, inadequate or incompetent when our relationships fail.
believe love-is offering
Love is trusting, accepting, and believing, without guarantee. Love is patient and waits, but it's an active waiting, not a passive one. For it is continually offering itself in a mutual revealing, a mutual sharing. Love is spontaneous and craves expression through joy, through beauty, through truth, even through tears.
listening action
Listening is love in action.
love lying men
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
love giving joy
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."
love-you love-is ideas
There is seemingly so little love shared in this world, it is not surprising that we ask, "Where have all the lovers gone?" Since love is the most vital energy for good that is within our power to utilize, it is puzzling why we so seldom do so. Love is just a useless, abstract idea until we put it into action...unless we are always actively living in love, we are not utilizing the greatest gift we have been given and which we, in turn, have to offer....
matter ability-to-love ability
One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.
love romantic issues
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.