Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

— Leo Buscaglia

Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

— Leo Buscaglia

Loving relationships, though necessary for life, health, and growth, are among the most complicated skills. Before we can be successful at achieving relationships, it is necessary that we broaden our understanding of how they work, what they mean and how what we do and believe can enhance or destroy them. We can accomplish this only if we are willing to put in the energy and take the time to study failed relationships as well as examine successful ones. Loving relationships cannot be taken lightly. Unless we are looking for pain, they must not be forever approached in a trial and error fashion. Too many of us have experienced the cost of these lackadaisical approaches in terms of tears, confusion and guilt.

— Leo Buscaglia

Man created words to free himself

— Leo Buscaglia

Nine times out of ten when you extend your arms to someone they will step in because basically they need precisely what you need.

— Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

— Leo Buscaglia

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

— Leo Buscaglia

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

— Leo Buscaglia

Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.

— Leo Buscaglia

Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying more refreshing more valuable more appreciated and more intoxicating!

— Leo Buscaglia