# Quote — Leo F. Buscaglia, Love

> 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.

- Author: [Leo F. Buscaglia](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia.md)
- Book: [Love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Leo_Buscaglia#LOVE_(1972)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/leo-f-buscaglia/love/this-loving-person

## More from this book

> 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)

> 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)