"It's the empathy that make us
responsible in love of all men."
L. Buscaglia

"...we must make do with what we have."
L. Buscaglia

"A lover is, then, constantly watching, listening, waiting,
feeling, adjusting, readjusting, and changing."
L. Buscaglia

"Love is always changing and always learning.
Love offers the greatest flexibility."
L. Buscaglia

"Responsible love is emphatic."
L. Buscaglia

"Responsible love is accepting and understanding."
L. Buscaglia

"If you want people to know you,
you are responsible for
communicating yourself to them."
L. Buscaglia

"The way to know life is
to love many things."
V. Van Gogh

"As one shows others he loves them,
so must he reveal to them his need for love.
You cannot assume that people,
even those close to you,
will know and understand your
unexpressed needs and feelings."
L. Buscaglia

"Even lovers are not mindreaders."
L. Buscaglia

"You can choose to live today
with joy or in misery.
Why not choose joy?"
Me misquoting L. Buscaglia

"To live in love is to
live in joy."
L. Buscaglia

"To work in love is to
work in joy."
L. Buscaglia

"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,
it is not true love.
For real love is dedicated to a continual becoming.
When, for any reason, this process ceases,
love becomes tedious, listless and is doomed to fade.
It decays. It destroys it self.
So what may seem like a beginning is,
in actuallity, only the beginning of the end."
L. Buscaglia

"Love abhors waste, especially waste of human potential."
L. Buscaglia

"Love leads you back to yourself."
M. Alibrando

If one loves only himself,
he is labeled egocentric,
self-centered, and selfish.
If he loves himself and a small community,
including his wife and a family in his love,
society will call him a true lover and
praise him as a sound man.
But, if he loves all men in an extremely high-minded manner,
he's often ridiculed by the world as naive and foolish."
L. Buscaglia

"But only when one loves his neighbor,
only then is the selfishness of preferential
love routed out and the equality of
the eternal preserved."
S. Kierkegaard

"The love of humanity is the natural
outgrowth of love of a single individual.
From one man to all men."
L. Buscaglia

"...if love is to grow it will need
diverse minds, innumerable individuals,
and the exploration of varied paths."
L. Buscaglia

"When love is truly responsible,
it is one's duty to love all men.
Man has no choice but to
accept this duty,
for when he does not,
he finds his alternatives
lie in loneliness,
destruction and despair."
L. Buscaglia

"... to be human is to be responsible."
L. Buscaglia

"Perhaps the most positive word
in the English language and
the most conducive to
continued growth, in love is, Yes!"

"A lover says
Yes to life,
Yes to joy,
Yes to knowledge,
Yes to people,
Yes to differences."

"If yes is too threatening,
he tries maybe."

"If one wishes
to be a lover
he must start
by saying,
Yes to love."
L. Buscaglia

"To love you must
free yourself of labels."
L. Buscaglia

"...we are all more alike than different..."
L. Buscaglia

"When you realize you are the best you,
you will accept the fact that
others are the best they."
L. Buscaglia

"If you try to be like anyone else,
you may come very close,
but you will always be the second best you.
But, you are the best you.
It is the easiest, most practical,
most rewarding thing to be.
Then it makes sense that you can
only be to others what you are to yourself.
L. Buscaglia

"If you know, accept and appreciate
yourself and your uniqueness,
you will permit others to do so."
L. Buscaglia

"Loving yourself involves
appreciating the value of
you above all things."

"Loving yourself also involves
the knowledge that
only you can be you."
L. Buscaglia

"I'm convinced that
we still have
misery, despair, agony,
all of those things,
because people didn't
actualize themselves
and share their worlds."
L. Buscaglia

"...do you know that no one has ever been able to
find a limit to human potential, or to humanness? 
You are unlimited possibilities."
L. Buscaglia

"When a man has love he is
no longer at the mercy of
forces greater than himself,
for he, himself,
becomes a powerful force."
L. Buscaglia

"Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."
A Einstein

"The foolish man seeks happiness at a distance.
The wise man seeks happiness at his feet."
Chinese proverb

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool
than to speak out and remove all doubt."
M. Twain but attributed to many others.

"Even a fool, when he holds his peace,
is counted wise: and he that shuts his lips
is esteemed a man of understanding."
Proverbs 17:28 - American King James Version