Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Our lives are the results of our choices. To blame and accuse other people, the environment, or other extrinsic factors is to choose to empower those things to control us.

You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people.

You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.

...Many of us are perpetual reactors. We let other people determine our actions and attitudes. We let other people determine whether we will be rude or gracious, depressed or elated, critical or loyal, passive or dedicated.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

The trouble is if you don’t spend your life yourself, other people spend it for you.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

A great sorrow, and one that I am only beginning to understand: we don’t get to choose our own hearts. We can’t make ourselves want what’s good for us or what’s good for other people. We don’t get to choose the people we are.

To love is to choose.

Welcome to the human race. Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

You can't tell me what to feel

What other people think of me is not my business. What I do is what I do. How people see me doesn’t change what I decide to do.

To a woman who complained about her destiny the Master said, "It is you who make your destiny." "But surely I am not responsible for being born a woman?" "Being born a woman isn't destiny. That is fate. Destiny is how you accept your womanhood and what you make of it."

What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.

Some people drift along like a cork on a river, feeling that they cannot do anything except drift, moment to moment. This is an attitude of mind. Everyone can be constructive even in tiny ways.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

Life is more a matter of choosing than knowing. He could never know the eventual destination of his path, but he could always choose in which direction to take each step.

You are fully capable of deciding your own destiny. The question you face is: which path will you choose? This is something only you can decide.

In general people put too much faith in the rich, the famous, the politicians, and not enough faith in themselves.

We are the makers of our own lives. There is no such thing as fate. Our lives are the result of our previous actions, our karma, and it naturally flows that, having been ourselves the makers of our karma, we must also be able to unmake it.

You can't let anybody else tell you what your choices are. Sometimes they won't give you the right choice.

I think all people's lives are controlled by their decisions. You look at people's lives - it's not their conditions, it's their decisions. So everybody has a choice and every moment in your life you're making decisions.

Because I always have a choice, I choose love.

I guess destiny isn't the path chosen for us, but the path we chose for ourselves.