Leo Buscaglia Quotes

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

I think I just have to control what I can control. I can control myself. I can't control anything else but what I do. I definitely know I can do a better job at that.

Just as your hand has the power to hide the sun, mediocrity has the power to hide your inner light. Do not blame others for your own incompetence.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Everybody eventually discovers that they are an individual with the power to affect their own lives and make it better or not.

The difficulties which I meet with in order to realize my existence are precisely what awaken and mobilize my activities, my capacities.

I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.

My most earnest prayer is that every man and every woman will get it into his or her heart that they are in very deed the architects of their lives.

The best thing we can do is develop our own.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

I'm my own harshest critic but I'm also master of my own destiny.

You are the only thing holding you back from happiness. You have the ability to change your life radically for better or worse.

I've learned during my life that if I am in hell, I make my own glory. I've also been in glory, and perhaps I've made my own hell, but I certainly don't take anyone down with me.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else

Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control. Stop aspiring to be anyone other than your own best self: for that does fall within your control.

It is better for you to take responsibility for your life as it is, instead of blaming others, or circumstances, for your predicament. As your eyes open, you'll see that your state of health, happiness, and every circumstance of your life has been, in large part, arranged by you - consciously or unconsciously.

If you suffer it is because of you, if you feel blissful it is because of you. Nobody else is responsible - only you and you alone. You are your hell and your heaven too.

to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.