Leo Buscaglia Quotes

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

Resolve to throw off the influences of any unfortunate environment, and to build your own life to order.

Remember, no matter what you background is and what your current circumstances are, you have the capacity to take action. This is one of the golden threads of humanity - we all have the power to act in a way that will improve the quality of our lives.

You choose happiness. You don't wait for it to choose you.

I think the future is whatever I'm willing to make it.

I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it.

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

I'm a fighter and not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most of life.

Liberation does not come from outside.

After everything I've been through, I've realized I can do anything I put my mind to. And I want to do it all.

In life, you get one choice over and over again. That is to take conditions as they are or take responsibility for changing them.

I don't feel like my life happens to me. I feel like I happen to my life. I feel that I'm in the driver's seat.

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

I believe we are our own inner hand - the godly power resides within each of us to create the lives we desire - no matter what the challenges!

Happiness does not depend on your circumstances; it depends on your will. It's a choice that you make.

Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.

If you become a master of meaning, you become a master of your life. Two people can have the same experience. One person decides that because of that experience his or her life is over, while the other decides that God has challenged him or her to step up, face the challenge, and become more than he or she ever was before.

You are the architect of your personal experience.

We and we alone have the power to change our lives, and we can choose to do so at any moment.

One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.

You can take your destiny into your own hands.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

You have incredible lives ahead of you. You have incredible things that you can accomplish. If you feel that, you will have an amazing life. Do not let anything build a wall too high for you to get over. And I know that might seem very cliche, but I've had alot of friends who had hurt themselves. And when you're younger, a lot of that stuff is so temporary. You can get through it. You're stronger than you think. You'll ALWAYS be stronger than you think. Feel with your heart and do what you want.

Optimism is the secret of self-reliance. Self-reliance is the secret of a dynamic power. A dynamic power is the secret of an immediate success.