# Quote — Leo F. Buscaglia, Love

> 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.

- 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/we-need-not

## 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)

> 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)