None of us has the power to make someone else love us. But we all have the power to give away love,… — 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 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 I talk to people who feel this emptiness and lack of fulfillment, I recommend they find a source of balance in… — 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
One man alone can't defeat the forces of evil, but many good people coming together can. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
God does not cause our misfortunes. Some are caused by bad luck, some are caused by bad people, and some are simply… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
God is the light shining in the midst of darkness, not to deny that there is darkness in the world but to… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It explains why people come home from work or school and immediately switch on the television. They are not interested in the… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
The happiest people I know are people who don't even think about being happy. They just think about being good neighbors, good… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence,… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
One of the basic needs of every human being is the need to be loved, to have our wishes and feelings taken… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
It is tempting at one level to believe that bad things happen to people (especially other people) because God is a righteous… — 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
History is written by winners, so most history books are about people who win. — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
Good people will do good things, lots of them, because they are good people. They will do bad things because they are… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I said in an interview at the time that God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctors' job.… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch… — 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
I suspect that the happiest people you know are the ones who work at being kind, helpful and reliable - and happiness… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
That is why we have to make room in our lives for people who may sometimes disappoint or exasperate us. If we… — 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
