Leo Buscaglia Quotes

You are not a powerless speck of dust drifting around in the wind...we are, each of us, like beautiful snowflakes-unique, and born for a specific reason and purpose.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and to me alone- over and above a sum of movements I am conscious of making, of emotions I alone experience- I strive, in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate?

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

The value of identity of course is that so often with it comes purpose.

No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.

I believe that everybody was born with a kind of uniqueness. There is never going to be somebody else with the same DNA as you, with the same experiences. There is something that you were meant to do as an individual. You have some kind of creative skill. It can either be creating your own business in some level, being a writer, an artist, whatever, or it can even be working within a company, but from within that company you're creating something.

I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.

Every person has a longing to be significant; to make a contribution; to be a part of something noble and purposeful.

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

Every song, every form of art, clothing, shoes, it has to be special.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

We want to help everyone find meaning in their life and help translate the story that each person actually matters in the world.

Your sole contribution to the sum of things is yourself.

For some reason, I always thought I was special. And for some reason, I always thought that I had a purpose in life: that I was supposed to contribute to the world.

Unless a piece really said something, I had no interest in it. I have got to know that I have served some purpose here.

I get to do what I love and communicate whatever I want.