Leo Buscaglia Quotes

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely, willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved; we love to love.

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Most people would rather give than get affection.

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

The way to fill your life with love is very simple: if you want more love, give more 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.

On the question of relating to our fellowman - our neighbor's spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

Caretaking is different from care giving. Care giving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached. It cannot be manipulated or discouraged because love cannot be manipulated or discouraged.

Lord, grant that I might not so much seek to be loved as to love.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Love is sacrifice.

You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.

Love seeketh not itself to please, nor for itself hath any care, but for another gives its ease, and builds a Heaven in Hell's despair.

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

When you say you are in love with humanity, you are well satisfied with yourself.

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Love is when each person is more concerned for the other than for one's self.