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
needs
We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.
dirty shoes appreciate
Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.
distance self overcoming
Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.
hate love-is apathy
The oppposite of Love is not Hate - it's apathy.
relationship playing-games growing
A growing relationship can only be nurtured by genuineness.
and-love affirmation life-is
Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.
forever given
What love we've given, we'll have forever.
lonely unhappy paint
If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.
moments
Catch the beauty of the moment!
children digging matter
We have to get children to understand that not only do they have this incredible uniqueness, but they also have something that sometimes we forget about. They are also potentiality. They are much more undiscovered than they are discovered. And there's the wonder of it. It doesn't matter where they are, they're only just beginning and the big magical trip of life is digging it all out and discovering the wonderful you.
care encounters our-relationship
We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.
garden thinking eggplant
To this day I cannot see a bright daffodil, a proud gladiola, or a smooth eggplant without thinking of Papa. Like his plants and trees, I grew up as a part of his garden.
running children creativity
I am often accused of being childish. I prefer to interpret that as child-like. I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things. I tend to exaggerate and fantasize and embellish. I still listen to instinctual urges. I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind. I never water my garden without soaking myself. It has been after such times of joy that I have achieved my greatest creativity and produced my best work.
children play parent
There is a good deal of excellent research on child's play. It has shown conclusively that through play, with the freedom of action it allows and the stressless environment in which it occurs, children discover, relate to and define themselves and their world. ...It is, therefore, paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play.