# Love

- Author: [Leo F. Buscaglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia.md)
- Quotes: 11
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love

## Quotes

> Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/too-often-we-underestimate.md)

> This loving person is a person who abhors waste — waste of time, waste of human potential. How much time we waste. As if we were going to live forever.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/this-loving-person.md)

> One does not fall "in" or "out" of love. One grows in love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/one-does-not.md)

> We need others. We need others to love and we need to be loved by them. There is no doubt that without it, we too, like the infant left alone, would cease to grow, cease to develop, choose madness and even death.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/we-need-others.md)

> We need not be afraid to touch, to feel, to show emotion. The easiest thing in the world is to be what you are, what you feel. The hardest thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don’t let them put you in that position.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/we-need-not.md)

> It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/its-not-enough.md)

> To love oneself is to struggle to rediscover and maintain your uniqueness. It is understanding and appreciating the idea that you will be the only you to ever live upon this earth, that when you die so will all of your fantastic possibilities. It is the realization that even you are not totally aware of the wonders which lie dormant within yourself.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/to-love-oneself.md)

> A total immersion in life offers the best classroom for learning to love.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/a-total-immersion.md)

> 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.

p. 198 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/perfect-love-is-rare.md)

> Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise.

p. 127 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/love-always-creates.md)

> As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/as-soon-as-the.md)