Leo Buscaglia Quotes

We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them.

I believe that we were meant to live as social creatures, to reach out and bless each other's lives.

Without love, the world itself would not survive.

But he knows that no man is an island.

There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

Having felt people's love and support first hand through difficult moments in my life makes me feel it's our responsibility to help one another.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that's true of everyone, don't you?

I think that sometimes we open our hearts a little more easily to animals than we do to each other.

As a species of animal that evolved to make connections and work together, it feels strange to suppress our desire for contact. People enjoy touching each other, and find joy in seeing each other in person - but now we have to keep our physical distance.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

Being with someone makes you happier and more content as a human being and takes your personality to greater heights and vice versa. And I don't think that's being too demanding.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It's not as much about them loving you - it's about you needing to love people.