Leo Buscaglia Quotes

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

The thing I really love about my fans is the vulnerability and openness, the crying and the hugs. They are so kind.

We all struggle with our failure to communicate and our failure to reach beyond fear to love people.

I have a lot of people in my life, and I think there's something key: the thing that leads to intimacy and relationship and connection is tenderness.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?

I try to speak of a love that not necessarily romantic. I think there is so much love between people and so much love people want to give but it's harder and harder these days to show that, to celebrate that, you know?

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

Love is - OK, it's 20 things, but it isn't 19. And I think that love reaches for something which is very, very deep in us and is very easily obscured, and is also very easily denied, which is the instinct towards the other person, other than toward the self.

Romance means making yourself vulnerable.

Everybody should start listening to love songs.

Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.

Love is reaching out to try to get to the other person.

The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

To give and receive love, you have to be in touch with pain, you have to be capable of provoking it and feeling it.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

I also think that what's wrong with all of us is that we don't show enough love toward each other.

I think invariably when you are dealing with relationships, the films really center on that, and the plot is really born out of that. That's the most core part of a relationship: intimacy, I think, whether it's expressed or not.

It's so important to keep a marriage alive with small treats and doing little things for each other. Just remembering to say nice things and to have listening time is vital. That ghastly phrase 'quality time' means taking three minutes to sit down and be still with someone rather than yelling over your shoulder as you rush out.

Through my research, I found that vulnerability is the glue that holds relationships together. It's the magic sauce.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that.

Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.

I am quite a romantic person, really, and I should have put that into my music earlier, but I was probably denying it... I didn't want to be soft because I felt I had to be so hard to get people to believe in me.