Larry Harvey Quotes

I'm a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: 'Don't hold grudges. If you do that, you don't lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.' I honestly think that's why I was able to survive and have some success.

I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I think we're all trying our hardest, and a lot of times we do bad things and need to do more good things. We need to be more caring, more forgiving, more loving.

I have become a person who can focus more on love.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

I can't understand it when people are closed-minded. I mean, boy, have I made mistakes and been very wrong. I can't tell you the amounts of times I've been let down, but I still try to see the best in people.

Why does God endow us with compassion?

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes, and men grow better as the world grows old.

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

I like to believe in the good in people. But we're all going to screw up from time to time. It just happens. It really is how our best growth occurs.

I care about people, and I've learned in life that the only thing we are here for is to learn and teach.

I've learned a lot. Being more compassionate.

I've become more empathetic, and my capacity to understand and be patient - to give people a break - has enlarged over the years.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.