Leo Buscaglia Quotes

I want the joy of knowing that I am doing something with my life, the joy of battle.

But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again.

To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of meaning and purpose in life.

Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy.

Getting ahead cannot be the only motive that motivates people. You have to imagine what a good life is.

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself, 'What makes me come alive?' Because what the world - a wife, a child - needs is men who have come alive.

Everyone wants that sense of fulfilling a purpose in some way.

I want to do work of meaning that speaks to a greater depth of who I am.

The word contentment comes from the word content, which is what we hold inside - love, value, a feeling of a life that has meaning or purpose, a cause greater than yourself that you're a part of. These are the things that bring true happiness. As a culture, I think we need to redefine what it means to be happy.

You have been oriented that you must pay a price in order to get somewhere, and in the process, you've come to believe that getting there must be really important, therefore, it must be your purpose. And we say, but if you're not getting to joy, then you've gotten nowhere. Joy is really where you're going.

Live the wonderful life that is in you.

The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one's destiny to do, and then do it.

Anything that does not bring you alive is too small for you.

I believe that if you don't derive a deep sense of purpose from what you do, if you don't come radiantly alive several times a day, if you don't feel deeply grateful at the tremendous good fortune that has been bestowed on you, then you are wasting your life. And life is too short to waste.

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find your own purpose. Each finds the reason to be here and how to contribute.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

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

Life: my favorite occupation.

The more you create authentic power, the more the characteristics of authentic power become yours, and the more meaning, purpose and joy enter your life.

I've never chased money. It's always been about what I can do to motivate and inspire people.

Life comes from physical survival; but the good life comes from what we care about.

When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live.

The last thing I want is for people to go through the motions in life. We're all meant to do different things, but there's a lot of opportunity for us to do some great things.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness

Happiness means nothing to me. I just want to have meaning and purpose.