Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Whoever believes in a man is very foolish.

If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe?

If you believe in love, you're setting yourself up to be disappointed.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

It's become hard for me to trust people and though I'm the type to go, 'everybody is born good,' you come to question that.

As it is natural to believe many things without proof, so, despite all proof, is it natural to disbelieve others.

True belief is not about blind submission. It is about open-eyed acceptance, and acceptance requires persistent distance from the truth, and that distance is doubt. Doubt, in other words, can feed faith, rather than destroy it. And it forces us, even while believing, to recognize our fundamental duty with respect to God's truth: humility. We do not know. Which is why we believe.

I don't discount belief. I just discount most of the things that people believe in.

Nothing ever guarantees you anything-that's my rule. My other rule is never believe anything that anyone tells you, and then you'll never be fooled. It's not as cynical as it sounds; it's just that people always say something for a reason-maybe a nice reason, maybe a devious reason-so on that level, you can't take things at face value.

A man of good sense always believes what he is told, and what he finds written down.

Why should I believe any of this?' It happens that fast. I say, because I think I like you. Marla says, 'Not love?' This is a cheesy enough moment, I say. Don't push it.

Without sounding overly pompous about it, I don't really trust certainty in anything, actually. Especially as I get older. Except love. I'm certain of love, I guess.

I have blind trust in people. Even if that ends up hurting me, I won't change. I will go on trusting people because that's the only way I know to love someone.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

Trust is the first step to love.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

It is important not to trust people too much.

I maybe trust too much.

I do believe in love. I don't believe you find it at 16 but I think I believe in it.

Even if you don't believe in God, you have to believe in love.

Not to believe in love is a great sign of dullness. There are some people so indirect and lumbering that they think all real affection rests on circumstantial evidence.

You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""

Love is the only medicine I believe in.