Leo Buscaglia Quotes

I don't think it's good to try and change anyone. The trick and the mystery - of relationships and life in general - is to learn to live with the bits you don't like.

We need to live and let live. This applies to a couple in general.

I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

You don't have to love them. You just have to respect their rights.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

I have differences with every single human being I know, but that difference shouldn’t define our relationship.

If you want peace, you have to accept the other. Talk to the other, and accept that they have rights.

You have to accept that other people are not going to live their lives like you, and you have to find a way to achieve your goals while they are still existing and living their lives according to their choices.

So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .

Love thy neighbor is difficult. That's why everybody - wars, you know. It's the hardest. And it's the most important. And respect thy neighbor. Love and respect. It means respect, really. Respect thy neighbor. Respect the other, the different.

[The main focus in my life now is] to open people's minds so no one will be so conceited that they think they have the total truth. They should be eager to learn, to listen, to research and not to confine, to hurt, to kill, those who disagree with them.

The moral thing I should wish to say to them is very simple; I should say: "Love is wise - Hatred is foolish." In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other.

Even if we do not always agree on every aspect, nobody should take this as an excuse to declare us as enemies.

You live and let live, eventually that becomes enough.

Not judging people is the fastest way to peace.

Tolerance is the only real test of civilization.

We need to learn how to love each other. If we cannot do that, then we need to learn to respect one another. If we can't manage to do that, then we must learn to tolerate each other.

There's no reason to trade insults. We have our way of life and they have theirs. I wouldn't live as they do, but disrespect seems pointless. I'm sure there are good people among them.

When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

We must take our friends as they are.

It is through accepting other people in our own countries that we shall come to respect our neighbours and be respected in our turn.

We must all learn a good lesson - how to live together. That is the new challenge of the new world... learning to co-exist and not co-annihilate.

Social peace requires reciprocity.

Dialogue is the basis of Indian culture, and we don't want to make any enemies. Political and ideological adversaries, perhaps, but not enemies.

You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.