Leo Buscaglia Quotes

All our failures are ultimately failures in love.

The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life.

And did I pass?" The face of the old woman on my right was unreadable in the gathering dusk. On my left the younger woman said, "You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.

The school of relationships is where you learn self-knowledge. I just don't know how you could learn it sitting alone in the desert on a rock by yourself. You have to see where you fail at it. And that confrontation with your own ability - "I was again not able to love" - those are the teachable moments.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

When people disappoint you, it's just as much your responsibility to be aware of it and what you don't want.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

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

In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.

Whenever I'm talking about relationships, it's always at least three things. It's my relationship with myself, my relationship with God or an idea, and then usually somebody, a real person. I try to operate on all three levels at the same time, and it's difficult, but I never want to have a break-up song or something like that.

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on - series polygamy - until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimension to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

We love each other, that’s true whatever it means, but we aren’t good at it; for some it’s a talent, for others only an addiction.

I think the most difficult love begins with one's self. How you treat yourself is something you bring to your relationships.

The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.

Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

As I've got older, I've got more understanding of relationships and how they work - but every single relationship has different dynamics, so you can't paint everyone with the same colour.

Women are pretty good. Women usually fight about some stupid guy and then when they figure out it's just a stupid guy they make up and move on.

Success in love isn't about looks, it's about attitude.

How we love others is affected by how we love ourselves, and for the first time in a long time, I was whole.

There are certain bridges that are not worth crossing, no matter what others think. Loyalty and relationships are important.

Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.

I'm just a big believer in 'you must love yourself before you can love anybody else,' and I think for me that breeds the most inspired relationships.

In relationships, you learn a million things. I'm sure a therapist can tell you about it.