Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
When your life is filled with the desire to see the holiness in everyday life, something magical happens: Ordinary life becomes extraordinary,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Other people may complicate our lives, but life without them would be unbearably desolate. None of us can be truly human in… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“(Many religions, from Judaism to Zoroastrianism, use light and fire as symbols for the presence of God, perhaps because light, like God,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“I find God not in the tests that life imposes on us but in the ability of ordinary people to rise to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
If you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Integrity means being whole, unbroken, undivided. It describes a person who has united the different parts of his or her personality, so… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
A personal relationship with God enhances life. First, it enables us to accept our limitations without being frustrated by them. It assures… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Pain is a part of being alive, and we need to learn that. Pain does not last forever, nor is it necessarily… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Think about it: it is easy to see God's beauty in a glorious sunset or in ocean waves crashing on a beach.… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared...The longer we live, the more life… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
At some of the darkest moments in my life, some people I thought of as friends deserted me-some because they cared about… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
“We cheat death, not by living forever, but by bearing, raising, and educating children to keep our souls, our values, and even… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The purpose in life is not to win. The purpose in life is to grow and to share. "When you come to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
We do ourselves and others a disservice when we make old age something to be feared. Life is not a resource to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Only a life of goodness and honesty leaves us feeling spiritually healthy and human. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
When a mentally retarded child is born, the religious question we often ask is, "Why does God let this happen?" The better question to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Seek something outside your nine-to-five job as an additional source of fulfillment and as a way to feel the joy of helping others. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
But at the end, if we are brave enough to love, if we are strong enough to forgive, if we are generous enough to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love, to love… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
We teach children how to measure and how to weigh. We fail to teach them how to revere, how to sense wonder and awe. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
God, who neither causes nor prevents tragedies, helps by inspiring people to help. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
There seems to be something in the human soul that causes us to think less of ourselves every time we do something wrong... And… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
There is a Jewish notion that holiness is found with other people. To understand what life really is, one has to share it. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The path to God is rarely a steady climb upward. We climb, we fall back, and we climb higher again. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
You don't have to be religious to have a soul; everybody has one. You don't have to be religious to perfect your soul; I… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image