I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate – it’s apathy. It’s not giving a damn. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
The minute we stop learning, we begin death, the process of dying. We learn from each other with every action we perform. We are teaching goodness or evil every time we step out of the house and into the street. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
I’ve always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
If you’re an advocate of gentleness, you’re simplistic and naive. If you’re an advocate of despair and hate, you’re sophisticated. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
I have too much respect for people to try to control them. But they are estranged from love, afraid to reach out and touch one another. We’re afraid to appear sentimental or speak in platitudes because people will say, ‘What a jerk!’ It takes courage in our culture to be a lover. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, ‘No, I won’t do it, I won’t behave his way anymore. I’m lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,’ and then you do it. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails. Leo Buscaglia Read Quote
