Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

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

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times-Love! Love! Love!

None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love other people. And if we do so, we change the kind of world we live in.

The only thing that you can never have too much of is love.

True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!

If you've got love you've got life, if you can love you can live.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

To be loved is important as is having a sense of accomplishment but to love is equally important in life especially when it is combined with taking action to do something for someone else to make their life better.

Love is cheering and sharing and compassion and giving and receiving. Love is an action thing more than a word thing, that brings comfort or joy or relief to anyone or anything.

I will say go into the world and try to find good people that feel genuine affection and love for you, and disregard everything else about their background.

Well, for me, what I've learned at the very end of this, love is sharing, and I think that really is, for me, the best place to go to experience love, is sharing.

Love is a lifestyle. You have to become a representation of love. You have to become a pro-active contributor to love. I don't think it's something that you just sit back and wait on.

It's easy to love people who love you.

Love is the biggest thing. I feel that if we all were truly loving to each other, I think life would be better. Even to like, a stranger. They could be going through something crazy in their day and just to show love towards that person.

Love is not getting, but giving. Not a wild dream of pleasure and madness of desire - oh, no - love is not that! It is goodness and honor and peace and pure living - yes, love is that and it is the best thing in the world and the thing that lives the longest.

Altruism is a barbarism. Love is the word.

The only way to experience love is to give it.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Love is giving and it has nothing to do with what you receive.

Your love to others, and their love for you, that the increase of love in life itself around you, is what matters.

If we wait for some people to become agreeable or attractive before we begin to love them, we will never begin. If we are content to give them a cold impersonal 'charity' that is merely a matter of obligation, we will not trouble to understand them or to sympathize with them at all. And in that case we will not really love them, because love implies an efficacious will not only to do good to others exteriorly but also to find some good in them to which we can respond."

If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.