Leo Buscaglia People Quotations

We are so ruled by what people tell us we must be that we have forgotten who we are.

Assume that people are good until you actually and specifically learn differently. And even then, know that they have potential for change and that you can help them out.

Loving means sharing joy with people.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

People are not here to meet your expectations.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

My rule is always, People first and things second.

Fantastic things happen - to the way we feel, to the way we make other people feel. All this simply by using positive words.

You have choice. You can select joy over despair. You can select happiness over tears. You can select action over apathy. You can select growth over stagnation. You can select you. And you can select life. And it's time that people tell you you're not at the mercy of forces greater than yourself. You are, indeed, the greatest force for you.

I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

We want to gently remind people that we don't have forever. In my work, I hear parents complain all the time that their children grow up so fast. But they don't take the time to sit down and talk to each other. The last bastion of getting together is around the table.

I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We're afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, 'What a jerk!' It takes courage in our culture to be a lover.

I've learned that you learn best by modeling. If you want people to learn, do it!

Food is celebratory. People who don't cook don't know how much fun they're missing.

I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Love is not a thing, it is not lost when given. You can offer your love completely to hundreds of people and still retain the same love you had originally.

I would not want to form a partnership with an architect who has only a little knowledge of building or a broker who has a limited knowledge of the stock market. Still, we form what we hope to be permanent relationships in love with people who have hardly any knowledge of what love is.

It is difficult for some people to accept that love is a choice. This seems to run counter to the generally accepted theory of romantic love which expounds that love is inborn and as such requires no more than to accept it.

The most human thing we have to do in life is is to learn to speak our honest convictions and feelings and live with the consequences. This is the first requirment of love, and it makes us vulnerable to other people who may ridicule us. But our vulnerability is the only thing we can give to other people.