What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

The only people who become wealthy by being concerned with the future are insurance companies.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

A loving relationship is a wanting to celebrate, communicate, and know another's heart and soul.

There are many miracles in the world to be celebrated and, for me, garlic is the most deserving.

Love deeply and passionately. You might get hurt, but it is the only way to live life completely.

"To be is to do," says the existentialist. "One only becomes real (human) at the point of action."

Live nutty. Just occasionally. Just once in a while. And see what happens. It brightens up the day.

What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

Our talents are the gift that God gives to us... What we make of our talents is our gift back to God

We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.

Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

No one gets out of this world alive, so the time to live, learn, care, share, celebrate, and love is now.

If we wish to free ourselves from enslavement, we must choose freedom and the responsibility this entails.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

One must never be satisfied with his ability to love. No matter where he is, it is always just a beginning.

The human need to play is a powerful one. When we ignore it, we feel there is something missing in our lives.

The way to anybody's heart is through a thoughtfully-prepared, beautifully-executed, lovingly-presented meal.

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves.

In order to learn, you have to be free. You have to be free to experiment, free to try, free to make mistakes.

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

Man is happiest when he is creating. In fact, the highest state of which man is capable lies in the creative act.

Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself.

One cannot give what he does not possess. To give love you must possess love. To love others you must love yourself.

Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.

Most of us remain strangers to ourselves, hiding who we are, and ask other strangers, hiding who they are, to love us.

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

My mother made soft polenta often, and as a child, I would watch her stir until she looked like her arm would fall off.

You have the choice. You can choose joy over despair, happiness over tears, action over apathy, growth over stagnation.

Death is a challenge. It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right now that we love each other.

Love requires that we overcome the traditional and self-defeating fears that place distance between ourselves and others.

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things... I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.

Happiness is intrinsic, it's an internal thing. When you build it into yourself, no external circumstances can take it away.

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

The most important thing in the world is that you make yourself a loving person, because this is what you will be giving away.

The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.

Celebrate your humanness, celebrate your craziness, celebrate your inadequacies, celebrate your loneliness ... but celebrate YOU!

If you're an advocate of gentleness, you're simplistic and naive. If you're an advocate of despair and hate, you're sophisticated.

When we feel joyful, euphoric, happy, we are more open to life, more capable of seeing things clearly and handling daily tensions.

After all, the wrong is done. It is past and cannot be changed. We have only the present and the future upon which to move forward.

Nine times out of ten, when you extend your arms to someone, they will step in, because basically they need precisely what you need.

Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Choose the way of life. Choose the way of love. Choose the way of caring. Choose the way of goodness. It's up to you. It's your choice.

We treat our encounters with them with carefree casualness. We are certain that our relationships will naturally take care of themselves.

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