Leo Buscaglia Quotes

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.

Our common humanity is more important than all the things that divide us.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Forgiveness is attention without judgment. It heals the one who forgives and the one who is forgiven.

Understanding is often a prelude to forgiveness, but they are not the same, and we often forgive what we cannot understand (seeing nothing else to do) and understand what we cannot pardon.

A trusting heart is forgiven and, in turn, forgives.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

We do not celebrate the death of our enemies.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.

I want to see these bad, bad, bad, bad men come to grips with their humanity.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

We are all trying to make it the best way we know how, so when we look at each other as individuals and nations, we should do so with compassion.

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

The only bond worth anything between human beings is their humanness.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.

The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions.

We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.