Author

Leo Buscaglia

35 quotations

About Leo Buscaglia

Felice Leonardo Buscaglia, also known as "Dr. Love", was an American author, motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.

Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Leo Buscaglia
Topics: Love Life Learning Change Smile Time
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.
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.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Advertisement

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.
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.
I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
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.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.
The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.