Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The starting block for people who are going to stay in love is mutual submission.

Two people who think they're in love can find out, when left alone, exactly how little they know about each other.

People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.

I have no useful theories about love and marriage.

Divorce can be crazy. Man, if you're happy... Love is a beast, man. Hold on. Be prepared for any way it may go, and be honest.

Love is what you've been through with somebody.

I guess because it feels more open, but I think being married is way sexier, because it's really like your soul partner in a permanent fashion, and then you strive for it to be something permanent, and that type of commitment and trust, if you can achieve it, is so good for the soul.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Of all the myriad ways we define love, there is perhaps none more honest and powerful than this: Great love is rooted in great partnership.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love.

Love is a credulous thing.

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift.

Some people say the reason I am not married is that I don't understand small business and the toughest small business in the world is a family. But when you are happy and feel every minute of your life, what is the reason to get married?

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well.

Marriage isn't something you agree to do one day, and if things don't go right, then it's over.

Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test.

You kind of restructure your whole personality to be in a healthy relationship.

Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

To work with someone you love is something special, an incredible experience. But it could be a negative. You have to make a strong commitment to be honest; you're not just being polite, like strangers on an airplane; you're working.

I honestly believe you can never tell if a relationship is going to last. In my own marriage, which is going on 14 years, I don't think of it as 'I'm going to be with this person forever.' Instead, I think of more like, 'I'll probably be with this person for the next six weeks. Then I'll re-evaluate.'