Larry Brilliant Quotes

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

I think true success is intrinsic... It's love. It's kindness. It's community.

We will discover through our own experience that this precious mind of love is the real wish-granting jewel, because it fulfills the pure wishes of both ourself and all living beings.

Be universal in your love. You will see the universe to be the picture of your own being.

Love and Compassion are the true religions to me. But to develop this, we do not need to believe in any religion.

Evident in every small act of kindness, it was love as a verb. Love that made me feel more complete than I had ever felt in my glamorous, Jimmy Choo filled past.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

May my soul bloom in love for all existence.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Be a force of love as often as you can and turn away negative thoughts whenever you feel them surface.

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us.

If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don't love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can't give anything else but that.

Stay in your heart.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

Anytime I ever have met someone that was very angry or full of negativity, nine times out of ten, if you really take a good look at that person's life, there's probably not a whole lot of love going on there.

Once everyone feels love within them, we can start spreading it and connecting to other people that are love-minded.

My whole teaching consists of two words, meditation and love.

Women: We cannot love them all. But we must try.