Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person. And to retain this right, you will have to be willing to take the social or external risks involved in ignoring pressures to do things the way others say they should be done

I am doing things that are true to me. The only thing I have a problem with is being labeled.

I've learned a lot about how people have to fight through their whole lives just to be themselves.

I've tried not to get too bogged down by what people want you to be.

People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

That is the key of this collection, being yourself. Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way to live.

I have to be myself.

Being cool is being your own self, not doing something that someone else is telling you to do.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

How dull it is to have people defining you.

Society loves to put bubbles up there and pop them, and I resent it. I'd rather expose myself myself.

I've always rooted on kids that do what they want to do and are being who they want to be.

Everyone is being told by society to talk this way, to dress that way, to be this person or to be that person, and it's so important to just maintain a sense of self.

I don't think that the next generation should fear just being who they are rather than confirming to an expectation of what they are meant to be.

I don't want to be seen in a way where all I can do is what people expect of me.

I'm my own person, and I think that's what everyone wants because it's difficult to be somebody else.

I always have to be me.

People sometimes are afraid to be who they are because of other people's ideals.

I am not defined to be in any mould and I can be whatever I want to be.

I only want to be myself.

The voice of our original self is often muffled, overwhelmed, even strangled, by the voices of other people’s expectations.

Trapped. Sinking. Can't be myself. Made into what other people expect. Is that everyone's fate? Were the great individualists the products of their friends who wanted a great individualist as a friend?