Quotes by Leo Buscaglia

About Leo Buscaglia:

Felice Leonardo "Leo" Buscaglia was an American author and motivational speaker, and a professor in the Department of Special Education at the University of Southern California.
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Don't walk in my head with your dirty feet.

Leo Buscaglia

....though modern Marriage is a tremendous laboratory, its members are often utterly without preparation for the partnership function. How much agony and remorse and failure could have been avoided if there had been at least some rudimentary learning...

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There comes a time in some relationships when no matter how sincere the attempt to reconcile the differences or how strong the wish to recreate a part of the past once shared, the struggle becomes so painful that nothing else is felt and the world an...

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Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and...

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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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There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

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Grownups don't pay it much attention because they can't imagine anything more majestic to a child than their own selves and so confused dependance for reverence.

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Love and self are one and the discovery of either is the realization of both

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Man created words to free himself

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Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's.

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To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness

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Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

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Always strive to achieve and eve if you don't reach your goal in life, you will be amongst the stars.

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Hard work, determination, discipline and dedication will determine your level of success.

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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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They had imagined too often and too much and so they had exhausted all their possibilities. When they embraced each other’s phantoms, each in his separate privacy has savoured the most refined of pleasures but, connoisseurs of unreality as they wer...

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Nowadays silence is looked on as odd and most of my race has forgotten the beauty of meaning much by saying little. Now tongues work all day by themselves with no help from the mind.

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I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have. I know I need something else. Something better. Like a story that shows how brazen women can take a good man down. I can hum to th...

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need our unique talents. Someone who will live a happier life merely because we took the time to share w...

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Author Bio

  • NameLeo Buscaglia
  • DescriptionMotivational speaker, writer
  • BornMarch 31, 1924
  • DiedJune 12, 1998
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist; Teacher